The ukulele can be a very simple, relaxing instrument. You can learn a handful of chords and be able to play enough songs to be set for life. But if you want to challenge yourself and take...

There isn't a whole lot of difference between soprano and concert ukuleles - only a couple of inches. But those two inches do change how the ukulele feels and how you play it. Advantages of a...

Here's an interesting image of an old advertisement for ukulele lessons from The Hawaiian Institute of Music: The text reads: BE POPULAR! ALWAYS the life of the party, the center of...

Thinking about buying a ukulele but can't decide if you want to go with the standard, traditional, "figure eight" regular body shape or the more quirky pineapple shape? Or maybe you're just...

Here are a couple of catalog images, dating from the pre-1930's, advertising the popular Gibson UB series of Banjo Ukuleles: Image 1: This first advertisement announced the release of the...

Transposition is the way music is either performed or written at pitches different than the way it was originally written, by lowering or raising all the notes by the exact same interval throughout...