There will be 15 ukes available; first come, first served.

Louie soon upgraded that toy ukulele — or “uke” for short — to a basic model.

But building gourd ukes – that’s something he’s going to stick with for a while.

“This year, I have no live students because our district is fully virtual. So, I decided to put the uke down and make a music video to send home to my students.”

“We never spent a million dollars on advertising or anything. Whether our uke pick or our bass pick, we made something that was cool and functional and really different from what was out there.”