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Ukulele Wars
Tamás GállPublic service announcement: we would like to reassure everyone about the lack of seriousness in the previous post involving a violin and a ukulele. It becomes much easier to understand if you take a careful look at the date. We are staying a ukulele blog! :) A long time ago, on a ukulele far, far a…
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Ukulele workshop with David Chen
Tamás GállWe warmly invite everyone to join us at 5:30 p.m. on 25 July 2018 at Valyo Kikötő, near the Pest end of Rákóczi Bridge, where internationally recognised Taiwanese ukulele artist and teacher David Chen will hold a workshop. We will finish with a short concert and some group playing. The event is bein…
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Virtual Meetups
Tamás GállIn these difficult times, I think all of us miss making music together. We are trying to ease that feeling a little with Facebook Live sessions , where we play one or two songs together. There is no visual or audio feedback from you, because I cannot see or hear anyone (apart from a few refreshing e…
Read moreVirtual participation in the 2023 Shanghai Ukulele Festival
Tamás GállAs last year David Chen contacted me again this year and invited the Hungaria ukulele community to take part virtually in the 2023 Shanghai Ukulele Festival. Of course anyone can attend in person as well, but most of us are more likely to send a greeting video. If you do not know David: he is one of…
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We Made Music Together for World Ukulele Day
Tamás GállOne week and one day ago, I asked you, dear ukulele players, to help celebrate World Ukulele Day together. I asked you to strum a total of 48 measures and, of course, record yourselves doing it. The past week was full of suspense as I kept watching my inbox... and not without reason. Slowly, your re…
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We Welcomed Autumn with a Ukulele Workshop
Tamás GállI started last Saturday's workshop with my usual "warning": I always tell everyone that I hardly take any breaks. And sure enough, we only managed one tiny break in the morning and another in the afternoon (plus a lunch break, of course ), since we covered and tried out so many things, and I think w…
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We Went to a Tommy Emmanuel Concert
Tamás GállI am surely not the first or the last person to struggle for words while praising this genius to the skies . For anyone who does not know him, we are talking about one of the world's finest acoustic guitarists, who returned to Hungary after five years and dazzled everyone with his playing. At times…
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You Played Ukulele, M'Lord?
Tamás GállWho has not heard of theYou Rang, M'Lord? television series, which is both wonderfully charming and very funny. (If by chance you have never seen it, catch up — you will not regret it!) There is a reason I am writing a few lines about it here: in episode 11, one of the scenes shared by Mr Twelvetree…
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