Ukulele Specialists: Ukulele Sales, Repairs, Trades. Ukulele Music & History
I recently purchased a Paulele ukulele and wow, what an amazing piece of work! The craftsmanship is outstanding and the tone is very beautiful. Very warm sound, yet still very bright. I carry it everywhere and everyone I show it too is just as amazed as I am. Needless to say, I am very pleased.
Shane Heuer with his Solid Bamboo Ukulele
Arthur Zukulele
Hi this is Arthur Zukulele playing this great KOA Ukulele Made in Portugal
Beautiful craftsmanship, lightweight , highly playable, great tone ~ this is the ukelele of choice for The Altruistic Messiah a.k.a. Ben Vandagriff. I love it !!! ; D ~
Well Stated!
Hi Art. I would love to talk with you about the possibility of purchasing the URL Zukulele.com. My husband, Michael, builds ukuleles and calls them “Zukuleles” because it’s close to our last name! I see that you call your ukuleles the “Paulele” so I was hoping you might be willing to change your website address. If you’d like to discuss this, feel free to email me at sfz2300@aol.com. Thanks so much for considering this offer.
Best,
Sallie
Sallie:
Paulele is a brand name from Takumi. Zukulele.com only sells brand name
ukuleles. Zukulele is also an authorized dealer for KIWAYA® ukuleles.
They have been making fine ukuleles since 1919.
we are in no way affiliated with your Husbands “The Zukulele.”
We like Zukulele and we had it first.
it is my name not close
Arthur Zukulele
Wow! this is really cool,
Looks like a future addition to the stringed instrument Department.
thanks randy
order yours today!!!
Art, I absolutely love my new bamboo ukelele! Beautiful tone and quality hardware make this instrument a “must have” addition to anyone’s collection. My guitars are getting jealous.
ukulele scott
Ha ha! Thanks Art. Better get that spell checked!
Thanks Art for the great conversation about our shared interest in music and Ukuleles
Reice Hamel Jr.
reice@trendsystems.net
Reice Hamel jr is a very talented man like his father:
Reice Hamel (b. June 18, 1920 – d. Oct 1, 1986) was an American Audio Recording engineer. He is considered, along with his colleague Wally Heider, to be the pioneer of complex live remote recording. He recorded under the company name, Reice Hamel Recording USA.
ReiceHamelRecording (13)
Contents
[hide]
* 1 Early Years in New York
* 2 Alone in San Francisco
* 3 Joan Baez Concerts 1962
* 4 References
Early Years in New York
Reice Hamel was born in the lower east side of Manhattan, NYC on June 18, 1920. His mother, Freida Bernstein, and Father, Leo Hamel, were Jewish immigrants from Austria who came to America in the early 1900s. During World War II he was a Navy Lieutenant, Chief Radio Officer. After the War he worked for International Telephone and Telegraph as a field engineer and was also a freelance television technician in Manhattan, NYC. In 1956 he became interested in Audio Engineering and Magnetic Tape Recording and decided to try it as a business. He used a modified Ampex 601 tape deck to record his first performance, a Girl Scout round-up in the middle of the Idaho forest.
Alone in San Francisco
The business of recording was a new frontier in America during the 1950s so he moved west to San Francisco, a city filled with new ideas and talent. In the 1950s San Francisco was a hot bed of talent and in small night clubs like the Hungry I, Purple Onion, Jazz Workshop, Curran Theatre, the Cellar and the Blackhawk on any given evening there would be legendary comedians, singers and bands of all types. Reice Hamel became the recording engineer to stars when he was granted the job of recording a well known Jazz group called the Cannonball Adderley Quintet. The recording was to take place at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco.
The legendary record producer Orrin Keepnews started a small record label, Riverside Records, and he commissioned Reice Hamel on Oct.18.1959 to record the two day session. The recording and subsequent album that resulted became, according to Keepnews, ” one of the most exciting, influential and successful live recordings in modern Jazz History “.
The success of the Cannonball recording propelled Reice Hamel into national attention and he was nominated for a Grammy Award for recording excellence. This was the first Grammy Awards and he was the first engineer to be nominated. After all the success Reice Hamel went back to the work bench and improved his electronic circuits. Ampex Corporation, the maker of his tape deck, used him as a field test engineer to improve the design of tape decks during that era. In 1963, at the Hungry I club, a young teenage singer made her debut, recorded by Reice Hamel, her name was Barbra Streisand. Many of the early recordings that he did in the San Francisco area where done out of his Porsche convertible and later in his custom VW bus mobile recording studio.
Joan Baez Concerts 1962
The legendary outdoor performances of Joan Baez where captured on tape by Reice Hamel using his custom designed recording systems. These recordings are of exceptional sound quality and in 1962, Seymour Solomon, of Vanguard Records wrote a letter to thank Reice Hamel for the tapes.
HI Reice Hamel JR is my father, I’m josh hamel.
Arthur
This eco-friendly SOLID BAMBOO UKULELE
sounds great even in the High Seas!!
Thank you zukulele.com
Bo & Terry brusco
http://www.bruscotug.com
Hello there, You’ve done an incredible job. I?ll definitely digg it and in my view recommend to my friends. I’m sure they’ll be benefited from this website.
wonderful issues altogether, you just gained a new reader. What would you recommend about your post that you simply made a few days ago? Any certain?
Thanks Art for meeting up with me, on a saturday, so I could see the uke. Lowered the action and it plays great. It’s now my fave. I think the Paulele is a great insterment.
Steve
I purchased a Paulele Bamboo with a cutout. Wow! What a bright and unique tone. Great craftsmanship too. I went with the Paulele as opposed to a Cordoba after reading a review that said the Cordoba had some issues with the bamboo cracking. And the French polish that this seller had custom done on the back is a nice touch! Thanks again for the great deal!
I recently purchased a Paulele ukulele and wow, what an amazing piece of work! The craftsmanship is outstanding and the tone is very beautiful. Very warm sound, yet still very bright. I carry it everywhere and everyone I show it too is just as amazed as I am. Needless to say, I am very pleased.
thanks shane!!
art