December 22, 2020
Some of the best advice my mother gave me in regard to collecting was that the best time to buy something was when no one else wanted it. Being an antique dealer who bought and sold mostly European silver and porcelain, she knew exactly what she was talking about. Subsequently, I started collecting vintage ukuleles more than three decades ago, when the uke was considered the un-coolest instrument on the planet (see the article on my collection in the
Ukulele). Then, around the turn of the millennium, interest in the ukulele soared once again. When prices went up, my uke collecting slowed to a trickle.