{"id":144,"date":"2009-10-30T14:33:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T12:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/wordpress_mi\/?p=144"},"modified":"2018-12-04T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:03:43","slug":"jupiter-creek-music-australia-electric-ukulele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter Creek Music &#8211; Australia &#8211; Electric Ukulele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jupiter Creek Music<\/strong> was an Australian company that produced electric mandolins and ukuleles. In 2012 Rob Dick who owned the company passed away.<\/p>\n<p>On the homepage of <strong>Jupiter Creek Music<\/strong> you could\u00a0find a lot of information about the building of electric mandolins and ukuleles. A virtual workshop tour showed, how electric mandolins and other instruments are built.\u00a0 Jupiter Creek did\u00a0also build stomp boxes, wooden boxes with a microphone built in, which could\u00a0be used to make percussion sounds like a drumset.<\/p>\n<p>Very interesting was\u00a0the production of neck plates and tail pieces. Those parts are not generally available for mandolins and ukuleles, so they have to be built especially.<\/p>\n<p>The homepage of Jupiter Creek\u00a0does not exist any more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There are still two videos available at youtube the use an electric ukulele built by <strong>Jupiter Creek<\/strong> &#8211; a nice demonstration about what can be done with such an electric ukulele:<\/p>\n<h4>Greg Franklin plays While My Guitar Gently Weeps on electric ukelele<\/h4>\n<p><em>Greg Franklin improvises on the classic George Harrison song &#8220;While My Guitar Gently Weeps&#8221;. Playing a custom built electric ukelele. He recreates Eric Claptons original concept of weepin&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greg Franklin plays While My Guitar Gently Weeps on electric ukelele\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CGD08QWKp9s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Greg Franklin plays wild electric ukelele (ukulele) blues<\/h4>\n<p><em>Demonstration of blues played on a four string electric ukelele (ukulele) by Greg Franklin in the style of Eric Clapton, Jeff Healey and Stevie Ray Vaughn.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greg Franklin plays wild electric ukelele (ukulele) blues\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fr_XGAVy3x0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Jupiter Creek Electric Mandolin<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jupiter Creek Music Australia Solid Body Les Paul Electric Baritone Ukulele\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6bDcdo1aFqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Message in the Mandolin Cafe Message Board:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandolincafe.com\/forum\/showthread.php?89803-Rob-Dick-of-Jupiter-Creek-Music-has-Passed-Away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.mandolincafe.com\/forum\/showthread.php?89803-Rob-Dick-of-Jupiter-Creek-Music-has-Passed-Away<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Hi to all members in this group.<br \/>\nMy Dad suddenly passed away last week so unfortunately Jupiter Creek Music is no longer. A very very sad time for the family.<br \/>\nI will put an update on the group wall in the near future.<br \/>\nCheers,<br \/>\nKristie Pope<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CD Travels by Jake Shimabukuro (amazon partner link)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=mandoisland00-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B011T60FP8&amp;asins=B011T60FP8&amp;linkId=IGCZ7CPACEQFIGMW&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter Creek Music was an Australian company that produced electric mandolins and ukuleles. In 2012 Rob Dick who owned the company passed away. 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