The 4th Peg

Is 17 feet out of the question for a ukulele? How much for the case?
Famed player and teacher J. Chalmers Doane dontated a 17-foot-tall ukulele used at the 2005 International Ukulele Ceildh in Liverpool. The jumbo uke has been named one of the “seven wonders of the South Shore” by the readers of Lighthouse Publishing Ltd.’s media publications.

An attempt to get the giant “uke” into the Guinness Book of World Records failed in 1976. Ukulele Ceilidh volunteer, Susan Borgersen said it didn’t make it into the book because the strings were made of clothesline, making it unplayable. “It’s authentic; it’s not just a cardboard cutout,” she said. Borgersen believes that today’s technology would enable the ukulele to actually be strung and played.

But who’s got hands that big?

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