Frank's descendents have a mandolin and a guitar mandolin. Body shapes ae quite different, but the headstocks are identical. Only two ukes are known to exist (unless you have one). The Star article claims that this operation turned out several thousand ukulele each year. Sanborn fires maps show that he expanded the garage behind his home, several times, to accommodate his growing production. An Indianapolis Star article from the teens shows Frank's little factory with 100+ ukes in various stages of production. One I would love to find is a maker named Naapohou, who advertised in the Honolulu City Directory around 1888/89-ish, making him amongst the first indigenous Hawaiians to advertise as a uke builder on the islands.anyone seen one ? love your screen name,000-28, might change mine to '59 J-50 ! See ya!įrank Bremerman, and to some extent his sons,were building ukuleles in Indianapolis beginning in the mid teens. to make a living before the first uke "craze" hit around 1915. Which ukuleles do you think are the rarest ?Īny Santos or Dias built uke is not only rare, but historically significant,& very few examples exist, as I'm pretty sure the early Portugese makers were'nt relying on ukulele manufacture as a principal source of income, relying more on cabinet-making / furniture etc.
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