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End-of-Summer Ukulele Course — Report
Tamás GállOn the second-to-last day of August — yesterday — I met fifteen very enthusiastic beginner ukulele players at a lovely venue in central Budapest. I arrived together with a kind fellow ukulele player, who was a great help carrying things and setting up the room, so many thanks to her once again . Soo…
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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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Five Foot Two – chords and picking technique
Tamás GállThis song may not be as widely known in 2018 as it was in the 1920s. I would like to introduce it to you now, but above all I want to encourage you to learn its chord progression, which I think is extremely effective and very well constructed. There have been countless versions of the song, and it i…
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Flight DUC-525
Tamás GállI recently had the chance to try a very attractive concert-size ukulele, the Flight DUC-525. The natural colour of the wood is beautiful, and I think the combination of spruce and zebrawood looks excellent. Its top is solid spruce, which gives this ukulele a wonderfully clear, crystalline tone. It c…
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Flight — DUC-525 CEQ
Tamás Gáll...or: tuning with a built-in tuner. A few months ago I already showed you the acoustic sibling of this ukulele, the regular DUC-525, and even then I praised its wood combination, tone and volume. This time you can watch a longer video about the electro-acoustic version, which differs from the acous…
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Flight NUS-310 Blackbird Soprano
Tamás GállUntil now I had never held a completely black ukulele. This time, however, I got to try the Blackbird from Flight's 310 series, and it is so black that even the strings are black. Apart from that, it is essentially the same as the Flight NUS-380 I tested recently. As with that Flight, what we get he…
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Flight NUS-380 Soprano
Tamás GállLast autumn I tried a Flight tenor ukulele (this particular tenor is currently out of stock), and a few days ago a cute entry-level soprano Flight found its way into my hands. That happened because a kind ukulele-playing lady ordered one from the Ukulele.hu webshopand told me that if I wanted to, I…
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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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