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Facebook Live Sessions — When the Saints
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Happy 10th Birthday, Hungarian Ukulele Blog!
Tamás GállDear Ukulele Players! Fasten your seat belts — this is going to be a long blog post! December 30, 2010 was an important date in my life. It is one of the relatively few dates I can actually remember without looking it up . That was the day I published the first blog poston the blog.hu platform. Exac…
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Happy Birthday!
Tamás GállToday the Hungaria Ukulele Blog celebrates its second birthday. When I started the blog I had no idea I would inspire so many readers to learn music and take up the ukulele. I would like to thank you for all the kind enquiries and reports you have sent about buying and learning the ukulele. I hope y…
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How I reacted to the chords...
Tamás GállWith the end of the year approaching, inspiration struck and I made a video intended to be funny. I hope many of you know the Obama parody in which a comedian playing the former US president greets the people he passes after a speech with varying degrees of enthusiasm. I translated that idea into en…
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I became a Kala ukulele ambassador
Tamás GállDear Ukulele Players! I would like to share some happy news with you. You probably know that Kala is a ukulele brand: I have presented quite a few Kala ukuleles here on the blog (the first one in 2012), and Kala ukuleles were also available in the webshop at the time. Well, the Kala company—recogniz…
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