Strumalola

 One side effect of my Myeloma or maybe the treatment program I'm in, not sure, is a constant howling in my left ear, like an extreme tinnitus which rises and falls in intensity while staying the same note (around about an Eb) along with other ticking, jangling and creaking noises, which the following day led to complete deafness in that ear, while still having the weird noises listed above. Great so can't hear TV properly, can't listen to music in headphones because it would be all monophonic.

But yesterday I picked up my concert uke, had a little play. Had to stop playing after a short while because the high g was irritating my right ear, which was accentuating the howling in my left. It was like a feedback howl.

So I picked up the baritone instead which is tuned GCEA low G. Much better. Finally an instrument I can play ! (Yet to try guitar. That's next. Had to stop playing guitar because of a fractured left clavicle- too painful!)

So anyway here's a little ditty on the baritone.

Happy Birthday Brudda iz

 Celebrating the birthday of  Kamakawiwo'ole, born this day 1959

Ukulele fun

 Couple of pieces on the concert uke

Bit of blues

 On the 4 string wonder 

Pastorale, redux

 A piece in The Guitarist's Way book, redone, played on strings 1 and 2 rather than trying to play it all on one string. Also played the repeat.

Then I played it on ukulele

September Blue

A little something I came up with on the baritone ukulele, using minor and 7th chords.

After You've Gone

 A song in The Daily Ukulele played on Kalea the Tanglewood concert uke

Sakura

 A Japanese traditional, on my concert ukulele 

2 Strings Dancing

 A little bit of improv on my Tanglewood uke, using the g string as a drone.

Hammerin

 Little fun ditty on the concert uke using hammer ons

Greensleeves

 On my Tanglewood concert uke 

Plus the odd mistake 😬

Yrw Wyddfa

 A song from Uke magazine #27 by David John Roche called 'Yr Wyddfa'

2 string boogie, high G

 Same tune, this time on the concert uke with a high G

2 note boogie

 Messing around with my baritone ukulele tuned GCEA low G

I got the Covid blues

 Just great. First I get a cold and annoying cough, then I test positive.

So the thing to do is self isolate and stay positive! Took myself upstairs with my uke (tuned ADF# B) and a book (Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett)

Streets of London by Ralph McTell

 First playing of the G tuned baritone uke strung with the  Living Water low G set-thanks Ken! (https://www.kenmiddleton.co.uk/)

Recorded on my tablet so the sound isn't great.

Baritone re-string

 I got some Living Water GCEA baritone strings, in low G, unwound, and strung her up today. Took some turns for that high A, its very tight. And there was a spare A string in the set.

When I'm Dead and Gone

 A little bit of McGuinness Flint on the baritone uke currently tuned CGDA, with capo on the 7th so it sounds more like a mandolin, which is what it was originally played on.  

Chord progression in CGDA

 While playing around with the mandolele (baritone uke tuned CGDA) I found some chords and had came up with something involving a progression from B7 to Am, which sounded lush on the instrument. I tried those chords on gcea Ukulele, not nearly as good sounding, too bright, but the mandolele has a lovely dark tone. 

It also sounded nice on piano...

Mandola tuning on my baritone uke

 Following information provided by members of the mandolin cafe forum, I took the 5th 4th 2nd and 1st strings off my classical and strung up the baritone uke to CGDA-mandola tuning!

Ideally it wants new strings, they've been on the classical since 2015 but not played much. The 2nd string (D) sounds a bit dead. But its still very playable!