{"id":62708,"date":"2011-09-12T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/62708\/goodbye-oscar-schmidt-named\/"},"modified":"2011-09-12T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T00:08:23","slug":"goodbye-oscar-schmidt-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/62708\/goodbye-oscar-schmidt-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Oscar-Schmidt, I Never Named You at All"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, I got the bad news.\u00a0 The pre-amp on my tenor ukulele was not fixable.\u00a0 I think I was somewhat at fault, as it hasn\u2019t worked since I replaced the connector for the 9V battery. <\/font>\"\" I explained this to the nice guys as GuitarVille <\/a>shop when I brought it in, and I was actually a bit surprised as the repair guy told me nothing could be done to fix it.<\/font><\/p>\n

Mind you, the uke is still playable, it\u2019s just no longer something I can plug into an amp.\u00a0 I was kind of disappointed in its condition when I got it back.\u00a0 There\u2019s a decal that one has to peel back to get at the screws to access the pre-amp; that decal was still half off.\u00a0 The screws to hold the pre-amp in were still loose too.\u00a0\"\" In fact, it was a bit of a design flaw in that once you loosen the little wood screws to get at the innards, they\u2019ll never hold like they did originally.\u00a0 The battery itself (it\u2019s just a 9V, but it was new) was gone.\u00a0 I asked for a screwdriver to tighten up the screws.\u00a0 They gave me another battery.<\/font><\/p>\n

The store manager was there behind the counter and sensed my mild annoyance.\u00a0 We got to talking and he said that since his store does a lot of business with Oscar-Schmidt ukuleles, he\u2019s talk to the factory to see what could be done.\u00a0 I was thinking maybe I might get some store credit or a discount on a new one.\u00a0 This was the same store (at a new location) where I bought it when my first ukulele was retired due to an insurmountable addction to zinc supplements.<\/p>\n

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See the following video to see how I got the Oscar Schmidt in the first place.\u00a0 Zinc addiction is a terrible condition.
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A couple hours later, I was still out and about and got a message from the store manager.\u00a0 Bring the uke back, he told me.\u00a0 They\u2019re going to take care of me.\u00a0 Well\u2026\u00a0 Oscar-Schmidt stood behind their product!\u00a0 I\u2019m getting a brand new ukulele in just a few days!<\/font><\/p>\n

\"\"I handed over my old one without quite realizing the full impact of what I was doing.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until after I left that it hit me, \u201cOMG, I\u2019ll never hold that uke in my hands ever again!\u201d\u2026 The thousands of hours I\u2019ve played it.\u00a0 How many songs?\u00a0 How many videos made with that uke?\u00a0 A couple hundred, at least with hundreds of thousands of views.\u00a0 And now, it\u2019s gone.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 If I would have actually realized what I was doing, I would have sat down and played a set there in the store before handing it over.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Gosh\u2026 I can\u2019t really think of my favorite song that I ever performed on the Oscar, so to conclude the blog, and to say good-bye to my Oscar-Schmidt (I never did give it it\u2019s own name out of respect for Wanguruwe) I\u2019ll just post the longest\u2026.<\/p>\n

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Over the weekend, I got the bad news.\u00a0 The pre-amp on my tenor ukulele was not fixable.\u00a0 I think I was somewhat at fault, as it hasn\u2019t worked since I replaced the connector for the 9V battery. I explained this to the nice guys as GuitarVille shop when I brought it in, and I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,8],"tags":[4248,81,106],"class_list":["post-62708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-life","category-music","tag-guitarville","tag-joko","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}