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Ukulele courses in winter 2024

Tamás Gáll

Dear (Future) Ukulele Players! First of all, I would like to say that everything is OK with me—not that anyone was worried . I started a new job on 1 November, so I have had to devote all my energy and time to that, which is why there have been no new posts recently. Hopefully I will have time to ma…

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Ukulele Dzsem Podcast

Tamás Gáll

I received a wonderful invitation at the beginning of the summer: two enthusiastic ukulele players had started a ukulele podcast and asked if I would like to join them as a guest. Of course! I was more than happy to accept the invitation from Imre and Zsolt, whom I've known for quite some time. I re…

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Ukulele from Quarantine

Tamás Gáll

Millions of articles, books, films and other works have dealt with the story of the first Moon landing, but there is one interesting detail that I think many people do not know. A friend of mine, Marci, drew my attention to it - thanks again! When the astronauts returned to Earth, they spent twenty-…

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ukulele.hu has been redesigned

Tamás Gáll

About a year or a year and a half ago, I began to feel that it was time to rebuild ukulele.hu on new foundations. The previous website had served Hungaria ukulele players since 2015, and so much had happened over the following six years that its structure was beginning to struggle under the growing…

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Ukulele meetup!

Tamás Gáll

Dear Ukulele Players, we warmly invite you to another ukulele meetup, and we also welcome anyone who has never held a ukulele before but is interested in learning music and discovering the instrument. The aim is to gather as many people as possible, play together and inspire those who have not yet p…

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Ukulele meetup – 10 August 2017

Tamás Gáll

I would like to invite you to a ukulele meetup on Thursday, 10 August 2017, starting at 5:30 p.m. – arriving later is fine – in Budapest, very close to Puskás Ferenc Stadium. The exact address is Kerepesi út 26. We will finish at around 8:00-8:30 p.m., or earlier if everyone leaves, and later if we…

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Ukulele Meetup 2021

Tamás Gáll

Dear Ukulele Players! I am delighted to announce the first ukulele meetup of the year . Exactly one year ago today we held the 2020 ukulele meetup at Fonó. I warmly recommend the report I wrote about it . I very much hope the pandemic will not interfere and that as many of us as possible can get tog…

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Ukulele Meetup II

Tamás Gáll

After the June ukulele meetup, many of you wrote to ask when the next one would be. Some because you had not been able to attend, and several because you told us how much you had enjoyed yourselves and were already looking forward to the next one. Well, we now have the date of the next ukulele meetu…

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Ukulele on #bochkor

Tamás Gáll

When I started the blog in 2010, my goal was to introduce the ukulele and ukulele playing to as many people as possible and through it show the joy that can be found in music and making music. I hope that over the years more and more Hungaria ukulele players have appeared who also see it as their mi…

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Ukulele on Retró Rádió

Tamás Gáll

I had the honour of accepting a wonderful invitation: this morning I was a guest on Retró Rádióbetween 8 and 9 a.m. I had an opportunity to introduce the instrument, and several songs were played on ukulele as well. But before jumping straight into the middle, a few words about how it happened. A fe…

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