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Getting Ready for Ukulele Meetup II
Tamás GállIn just under two weeks, on Wednesday, September 4, we will be holding Ukulele Meetup II, and we are excitedly preparing for it. We hope you are looking forward to it at least as much as we are. I am delighted to see the registrations coming in nicely . If you have not yet registered for the event,…
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Four Strings, Five Years
Tamás GállDear Ukulele Players! Please allow me a little nostalgia in this year's final blog post, because exactly five years ago, on 30 December 2010, the Hungaria Ukulele Blog was launched. Happy fifth birthday! :) :) Five years may not be long enough for truly monumental nostalgia, but it is still a milest…
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Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Studio and the Ukulele
Tamás GállTo be honest, I used to watch with a little envy those videos where musicians speak or sing into professional microphones and their instruments sound great as well. I had wanted for a long time to make recordings with genuinely excellent sound quality, and I think I finally found the right path. I a…
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Film Music
Tamás GállI have not disappeared. If I had my way I would be making ukulele videos continuously, but I have been busy with a few urgent and important things, primarily this website:www.torvenyfigyelo.hu- this is where the shameless advertisement goes , so unfortunately I have not managed to make any new tutor…
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February Ukulele Course II — 2022
Tamás GállYesterday's Course II was fantastic. I had such a good time, and I hope you did too, dear Participants ! We reviewed picking techniques, practised rhythm, learned the notes along the ukulele neck and memorised a great many chords, then applied all of that in songs. In the afternoon we had a spontane…
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February Ukulele Course I — 2022
Tamás GállYesterday, 6 February 2022, I woke to unusually pleasant weather. Despite the season it was not cold — not that I had had much snow to shovel this winter anyway . I quickly packed the ukuleles, laptop and projector into the car and headed to the Aranytíz Cultural Centre. I would like to take this op…
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Farewell to Bill Tapia
Tamás GállBill Tapia, one of the world's oldest active musicians and a man famous for his ukulele playing, has died at the age of 103. (He played other instruments as well.) He was born on 1 January 1908, so he was only a few weeks short of his 104th birthday. He received his first ukulele at the age of seven…
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Tamás GállAccording to our plans, we should already have held both a ukulele course and a meetup this year, but unfortunately the current public-health situation forced us to postpone these programs. I hope you are all well and managing to get through this more difficult period. Make plenty of music and sing…
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End-of-Summer Ukulele Course — Report
Tamás GállOn the second-to-last day of August — yesterday — I met fifteen very enthusiastic beginner ukulele players at a lovely venue in central Budapest. I arrived together with a kind fellow ukulele player, who was a great help carrying things and setting up the room, so many thanks to her once again . Soo…
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Early-autumn Ukulele Course II — report
Tamás GállAs a continuation of last week's late-summer Ukulele Course I, I held Course II yesterday. During the morning we learned new chords, and in the afternoon we moved on to the foundations of music theory and barre chords. We covered a dense and substantial amount of material. It looked as though I mana…
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DIY Electric Mahalo
Tamás GállIn the [klub], a very interesting series of photographs caught my eye. It documented the "electrification" of a Mahalo soprano ukulele. I asked the author of the post, Béla Csongrádi, whether he would like to describe the installation process, because I would be happy to publish it on ukulele.hu . A…
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Caro Emerald brought the house down in Budapest
Tamás GállI got home from the concert only a few minutes ago and I am still completely under its spell. I had a fantastic time. I discovered Caro Emeralda few years ago when YouTube was playing random songs and suddenly I thought: “What on earth is this unbelievably good music, and who is singing it?” She is…
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