As I approached the dawn of a new millennium, the year was 1995 and I had been married 24 years to a good woman but our goals and spiritual lives had begun to diverge. The glue holding us together was beginning to crumble as I sought through counselors and self help books to hold it together. Daddy took and old suitcase and from parts from a junked pinball machine created my first guitar amp. But the real magic was the stories he began to tell me of his days as a budding trumpet player and his small garage band experiences playing the widely discredited music of such radicals as Glenn Miller and Woody Herman. A story that would repeat itself as I, later in life, would learn songs by The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. Costs beyond the instrument are also low. You generally will only need a few things in addition to the instrument itself. This includes a tuner, so you or your child can keep the ukulele in tune. A gig bag or case is useful for protecting the instrument when storing or transporting it. Tuners and gig bags can be purchased for around $20 each. You will also need to buy strings and replace them regularly. These are also reasonably priced, generally starting at $5 for a pack of strings. Once you buy a Ukulele, you're going to want to learn chords, and lots of them. Chords are simply multiple (typically 3 or more) notes being played simultaneously to produce a harmonious effect. You can learn chords by looking at ukulele chord charts, or simply by picking them up as you learn new songs. Both methods work fine. Once you know the chords, you don't even need Ukulele tabs to learn songs. You can simply look at guitar chords, and the chords will sound similar on the ukulele! Of course, the chords would be played differently, but that is where ukulele chord charts come in handy. Ukulele for sale in uk There are also tutorials online that can teach you how to tune your ukulele. The important thing is that before you begin playing the instrument, you learn