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Így ukuleléztek ti
Tamás GállI am interrupting the usual sequence of instrument reviews and song-learning posts with a subject that may be interesting. In several earlier posts we discussed why it is worth learning to make musicand, of course,play the ukulele, and the beneficial effects of playing a musical instrument. If you h…
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Rock your baby with a ukulele!
Tamás GállThe choice of title is deliberate, because this blog post is connected with Ringató – with the trademark owner's permission ;). Parents of young children certainly know Ringató. It is probably not an exaggeration to call it one of the best-known and most popular early-childhood music and education p…
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Send us your requests!
Tamás GállDear Readers! We are constantly polishing and developing ukulele.hu behind the scenes. Alongside technical improvements, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the site better and how to provide even more help with choosing and learning the ukulele. Recently we improved the mobile version…
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Ukulele meetup!
Tamás GállDear 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 on Retró Rádió
Tamás GállI 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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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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Ukulele Meetup II
Tamás GállAfter 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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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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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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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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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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