Back in the Shack & Better: Electric Tin-Can Ukulele



I traded this uke a while back and it was recently traded back. It used to have a Barcus Berry pickup glued to the underside of the top, but I just replaced that with an electric guitar-style humbucker which now senses the vibrations in the metal top. This makes it the only nylon/fluoro-strung electric ukulele that I know of that uses a magnetic pickup instead of a piezo one.

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Alex Robinson said…
More of your Innovative Work Jake. Sounds Great.
June 15, 2018 at 8:15 PM
Jake Wildwood said…
Thanks Alex! It's a bit inspired by late-'20s and early-'30s pickups for violins that used magnetic pickups to sense a ribbon of metal placed under a bridge. National tried something similar in the '40s and early '50s for an in-bridge pickup, but the idea never really stuck. Now I want to explore this with some other instrument ideas... :)
June 15, 2018 at 11:00 PM
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