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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Ukulele workshop with David Chen
Tamás GállWe warmly invite everyone to join us at 5:30 p.m. on 25 July 2018 at Valyo Kikötő, near the Pest end of Rákóczi Bridge, where internationally recognised Taiwanese ukulele artist and teacher David Chen will hold a workshop. We will finish with a short concert and some group playing. The event is bein…
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Caro Emerald brought the house down in Budapest
Tamás GállI got home from the concert only a few minutes ago and I am still completely under its spell. I had a fantastic time. I discovered Caro Emeralda few years ago when YouTube was playing random songs and suddenly I thought: “What on earth is this unbelievably good music, and who is singing it?” She is…
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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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