{"id":12,"date":"2009-12-22T08:38:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-01-05T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T20:15:43","slug":"my-ukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"My Ukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in love and purchased a blue Makala Dolphin Bridge ($30)\u00a0 ukulele (made by Kala) from a Knoxville\u00a0 music store (Rik&#8217;s Guitar and Sound on Kingston Pike near Walker Springs.)\u00a0 The salesman, Bo Davis\u00a0 was super friendly and ran across the store and got me\u00a0 a &#8220;how to&#8221; book.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great store even has a thermos of coffee available (my kind of store!)\u00a0 I quickly had the instrument re-strung with Aquila strings (Bo did it for me- it cost about $10.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0 soon decided I needed a &#8220;better&#8221; one and went to Broadway Sound and purchased a Kala entry level uke ($50) it was already strung with Aquila strings.\u00a0 Funny how often I choose the Makala over the the other&#8211; I just like the sound of the Makala.<\/p>\n<p>I love both of\u00a0 these music stores- they both have really good customer services that I appreciate.\u00a0 Plus, the sales man at Broadway Sound came strolling through the store playing a pink uke&#8211; I just had to buy a uke from this guy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in love and purchased a blue Makala Dolphin Bridge ($30)\u00a0 ukulele (made by Kala) from a Knoxville\u00a0 music store (Rik&#8217;s Guitar and Sound on Kingston Pike near Walker Springs.)\u00a0 The salesman, Bo Davis\u00a0 was super friendly and ran &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/?p=12\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukeladies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}