 Friend and mentor Larry Ramos has been playing the uke professionally since he was 6 years old. After becoming a child star he later became a driving force in the New Christy Minstrels and later the Association.
A couple years ago he insisted I make him his second uke. His 60th anniversary instrument. He wanted it so cool that everyone who saw it wanted one. He said it would be the last instrument anyone ever made for him. He proceeded to show me the Martin K50 which is dripping with mother or pearl and abalone.
 This Uke is made of Kauai Koa, from the land of Larry’s birth, with an Idaho Spruce top, from where Larry lives now with his wife Helen. Ebony fingerboards and ebony bridge, bone nuts and saddles and gold machines. The top neck is a 6 string or “liliou” and the bottom neck is a 6 string requinto, having 2 more bottom strings. The top neck has a Little Larry in mother of pearl and a 60th Anniversary in pearl at the 12th fret. The bottom neck has a mother of pearl inlay of the Hawaiian Islands with Kauai in Paua.
Larry’s first reaction when he played it was “..I didn’t expect it to sound good too”
Don’t think I ever made anyone happier. When he left he said “It’s more than I hoped for and it sounds bitchin’.”
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