Amanda Palmer has become one of the biggest converters to the ukulele around since she started playing one at her solo gigs and arranging various ninja ukulele gigs via Twitter. She’s had a few ukuleles along the way – most of them fairly cheap and easy for newbies to get hold of.

The first ukulele I noticed her with was a bright pink, sparkly, soprano Mahalo ukulele in this video. You can see it more clearly in this photo.

Since then she’s regularly been seen with a soprano Hilo ukulele with a playing card and various bits of black tape on it as in this picture.

More recently, AFP has splashed out on a rather higher quality ukulele for her gigs: a tenor Pono ukulele as seen in this photo.

Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele have caused a stir in the indie scene in the past year. But what exactly is this magnificent ukulele of his?

Dent seems to have a few ukuleles he uses regularly. The most recognisable is his Fluke ukulele with a cowboy design which can be seen in this performance of Love Song 2009.

He also regularly plays a Bushman Jenny as can be seen in the Oh, Paris! video.

He also plays a tenor Pono ukulele as can be seen in this photo.

There’s no doubt that the biggest ukulele hit of last year was Noah and the Whale’s 5 Years Time. So it’s not surprising I’ve had a few people asking which ukulele Charlie from the band plays.

In that video he’s playing a soprano ukulele made by Vintage.

I’ve also, more recently, seen him playing a spruce top concert ukulele (such as in this picture). My first thought was that it was a Kala. But if that was the case you’d expect to see the Kala logo at the top. So I’m stumped on that one.