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Relative Tuning
Tamás GállIt is best to tune a ukulele with an electronic tuner or a tuning app on your phone, but sometimes neither is available and we still want to get reasonably in-tune chords from the instrument. One solution is what I call "relative tuning" - I could not think of a better term - where we compare the pi…
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Report from David Chen's workshop
Tamás GállOrganising this historic workshop was exciting because it was the first workshop in Hungary led by an internationally recognised ukulele teacher. I hardly know where to begin this report because I am still very much under the influence of the event. First, I would like to repeat briefly the words of…
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Report from the 10th ukulele course
Tamás GállYesterday we held the 10th ukulele course in the heart of Budapest, at the Aranytíz Cultural Centre in District V. That day at the end of March when I arranged the dates of yesterday's Course I and the Course II taking place next Sunday with the venue now seems quite distant. And yet those few weeks…
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Report from the 11th ukulele course
Tamás GállAs a continuation of last week's anniversary ukulele course , I held Course II today. During the morning we worked on rhythmic techniques and learned several new chords; in the afternoon we moved on to further chords, including barre shapes. We covered a dense and substantial amount of material. It…
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Report from the 2019 Summer Ukulele Meetup
Tamás GállI'm smiling. I'm full of energy — I got so much from all of you at Monday's meetup! Thank you for coming in such great numbers, and from what I could see, you had a good time. The meetup had barely ended when I started receiving messages saying how much you enjoyed the event and asking when the next…
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Report from the autumn ukulele meetup
Tamás GállI have had an extremely busy three weeks packed with ukulele events. After two course weekends — one Course I and one Course II — the ukulele meetup followed on 11 September 2021. When I started organising the courses and meetup in the summer, I hoped we would just manage to fit them in before the f…
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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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Report from the Summer Ukulele Meetup
Tamás GállIt always feels good to write down my experiences after a ukulele meetup. Or rather, our experiences, because on the afternoon of August 11, 2020, around 25 ukulele players gathered together and we had a fantastic time making music! Thank you for the feedback I received afterwards in person, on Face…
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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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Report from the ukulele meetup
Tamás GállI arrived excitedly at the venue of yesterday's ukulele meetup shortly before 5 p.m. Loaded down with ukuleles, I made my way inside, and it was not long before the first “colleagues” arrived. My first thought on seeing the venue was that it was rather dark – how were we going to find the chords? –…
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Report from Ukulele Meetup II
Tamás GállYou may already be used to me writing a few words about each meetup or workshop afterwards, and this time will be no different . Yesterday afternoon, Zsolt and I arrived at Pódium Hall, the venue for the meetup, about three quarters of an hour before the official start. Together with the Eldorádó te…
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Report from Ukulele Meetup III
Tamás GállThis was a special ukulele meetup, because I had the honor of being invited to lead a workshop as part of Eldorado's 25th birthday celebrations. And at the end, the fate of a beautiful ukulele literally depended on my hand movements, because I was the one who had to rummage among the little slips of…
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