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...
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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...
A chord shape is a left-hand (for right-handed players) position your fingers make on the fret board which produces chords when strummed with the right-hand. The benefit of learning chord shapes...
For this lesson, we’ll only deal with re-entrant GCEA tuning. If you don’t know what this means, don’t worry. Basically, there are different ways to tune the uke, but re-entrant GCEA is the...
