The Story of the Ukulele Doodle

The original yuke doodle, which of course, if a child played it, didn't tune itself very well. It basically just sucked and made noise. So the next couple of years, they made a mechanism where you could crank and make a song out of your ukulele. Mattel learned not to show the toys until they were already and the warehouse was full.

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