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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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Report from the First Ukulele Course of the 2020s
Tamás GállI do not think people who teach courses usually write experience reports about their own classes, but somehow it has become a habit of mine. A course is a big experience for me too (and I hope for the participants as well ). I meet lots of new people whom it is a pleasure to teach and with whom it i…
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Chords 11: G minor
Tamás GállG minor is the drunk person's staircase. If E minor is a beautiful, orderly staircase, G minor looks as though the bricklayer forgot to sort the bricks by size. :) Compared with G major, only one note is different, but because of where that note falls, the fingering changes completely: 0231. The upp…
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Lanikai QM-BLCET
Tamás GállThe blog is nine years old today! Wow — nine years ago I would never have guessed what would grow out of that passing thought to start the Hungaria Ukulele Blog . The last two years have probably been the busiest: you have been able to see and hear a huge number of instrument reviews. This year we w…
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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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Lanikai FM-C
Tamás GállIn the next part of our Lanikai series, we take a look at a concert-size ukulele, the FM-C. The name stands for "Flame Maple" and the C indicates the concert size. This ukulele is made from flamed maple, so thanks to its appearance we can spend minutes hours admiring it, and its silky feel is equall…
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Flight NUT-310 Tenor Ukulele
Tamás GállAt Ukulele Meetup II , a fellow ukulele player was playing a Flight ukulele, and I jumped at the opportunity to borrow it from her for a quick test . It is a beautiful, large, solid instrument — perhaps one of the largest, if not the largest, tenor ukuleles I had ever held. Looking up the exact mode…
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Chords 10: E minor
Tamás GállThe easiest way to remember E minor is to say that we are building a “small staircase” with our fingers. The only thing we need to memorise carefully is where the staircase begins. Start at the second fret of the lowest string, then move one string over and one fret higher each time as we place thre…
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Singing and Playing the Ukulele
Tamás GállThe title could just as well be "Singing and Playing an Instrument", because it makes almost no difference which instrument we pick up: we can run into the same difficulty when we try to sing and play at the same time (wind instruments excepted ). This is no magic trick either, and of course it can…
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Report from the Ukulele Course
Tamás GállI really thought I was not going to write about this, but I simply cannot resist — it was too good ! The day before yesterday, nine very enthusiastic beginner ukulele players arrived on the top floor of the Alexandra bookshop at Nyugati tér for the recently announced ukulele course. A few minutes af…
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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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Lanikai MA-S Soprano
Tamás GállThe good news is that Lanikai ukuleles are available in Hungary again, and you can browse them in the webshop. First I would like to introduce Lanikai's smallest model, the MA-S. "MA" is Lanikai's entry-level range, and there are also concert, tenor and baritone sizes in this family. The only differ…
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