I love my ukulele. I do. I really do. I get tones of fun with minimum effort. It's the best thing I have ever purchased. And it was cheap. The idea came to me from the book " How to be free " by Tom Hodgkinson. This book mentions, among other memorable things, a Chekhov story ( "Who Was To Blame?" ) about a man who tried to learn his cat to catch mice. It reminded me of my years in school. Mahalo Tom!