e word //ukulele// is probably derived from [[vok:hawaii:uku]] "flea" and [[vok:hawaii:lele]] "jumping", the association with fleas-ridden dogs is easily explaine
ist sie ein Instrument der Ureinwohner von [[vok:hawaii]], das ziemlich einfach ist und das man mit der Hand spielt. Die Form ist rund oder oval. In Hawaii hergestellte Instrumente kosten, wenn sie nicht g... 35 ====
=== Ukulele Music Born in Germany ===
== Hawaiians Wrongly Blamed ==
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This tuning was probably the historically oldest of the ukulele on [[en:vok:hawaii]].
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Bill Tapia was from Honolulu, [[en:vok:Hawaii]] and started playing the [[vok:ukulele]] as a ch... e became one of the best known representatives of Hawaiian music. In 1937 he played the ukulele part in Bing Cosby's hit "Blue Hawaii". After the Second World War he turned to the jaz
_haida|Yukihiko]], was born in Honolulu ([[en:vok:hawaii]]) but moved to Japan in 1922 with his family. Since 1931 he appeared as a singer for Hawaiian music. During the Second World War, he came to
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The [[en:vok:hawaii|Hawaiian]] Kalei Gamio embraced the [[vok:ukulele]] as a teenager and learned a wide range of styles, inc... a first album. He performed with great success in Hawaii, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
the recognized authority on the pint-sized [[vok:hawaii|Hawaiian]] guitar, supplying most of the ukulele arrangements that were printed on the popular [[vok:part
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Berger came to [[en:vok:hawaii]] in 1872 as a Prussian military bandmaster at th... German Emperor to direct the local [[en:ens:Royal Hawaiian Band]]. Under his direction, the band became an... ieces known to this day (including the {{pdf:folk:hawaii_ponoi.pdf| Hawaiian national anthem}}). Berger, who maintained the best relations with the royal family,
American women who were passionate about [[en:vok:hawaii|Hawaiian]] [[en:vok:Musik]] and performing as [[en:vok:ukulele]] players.
Queen [[en:bio:Lili'uokalani]]... about her performance in Washington in 1897 in //Hawaii's Story//:
>While I was at the Shoreham, Mr. Hilb... of Miss Grace Hilborn, as she sang some of my own Hawaiian songs, to our instrument, the ukulele, gave to
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King spent his childhood in [[en:vok:hawaii]] and became a classical guitarist. Since 1979, h... itle="Douglas Martin">
John King adored [[en:vok:hawaii|Hawaii]], though he lived there for only a few years as a boy. The "Hawaiian room" in his Florida home was stuffed with hund