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Silent Night
Tamás GállThe German lyrics of the Christmas carol Silent Night were written by the Austrian priest Josef Mohr under the title Stille Nacht, and the melody was composed by Franz X. Gruber in 1818. The melody commonly sung today differs slightly from Gruber's original, especially towards the end. The song was…
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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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Scott Joplin — The Entertainer
Tamás GállThis year I have had less time for song-learning posts, but I am trying to make up for that now. In fact, I have made one of the most serious and longest videos in the history of the Hungaria Ukulele Blog, based on a ukulele arrangement of the piano piece in the title. If the title does not immediat…
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Schubert — Die Forelle (The Trout), Op. 32
Tamás GállThis wonderful Schubert piece is one of the best-known classical compositions and one that many people may remember from school. This year marks exactly 205 years since Schubert wrote down the song that later provided the basis for the Trout Quintet two years afterwards. It has an exceptionally beau…
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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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Risa CWS - A Walnut Ukulele
Tamás GállWe ended the old year by presenting a banjolele, and we begin the new one with a ukulele review. I can wholeheartedly recommend Risa's concert-size ukulele to anyone: both to someone who does not yet own a uke and wants an instrument that is beautiful in both appearance and sound, and to someone who…
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Rhythm and Strumming 2 — Muting the Strings
Tamás GállYou can never practice rhythm enough, and almost every day the internet offers new rhythmic patterns and techniques connected with the subject. If you would like to see the Rhythm and Strumming 1 blog post and video, click here . Most videos about rhythm focus primarily on the movement of the strumm…
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Rhythm and Strumming 1
Tamás GállDear Ukulele Players! Before I turn to the subject in the title, please allow me a brief announcement. As you may have noticed, we removed the blog posts about the Spring Ukulele Meetup planned for March 24, and we also posted on Facebook that — because of circumstances I think everyone is familiar…
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Republic — Szállj el, kismadár
Tamás GállI know there is no comma in the original title, but I put one in. Sorry. :) It needs one. We continue the Hungarian section with a popular song by Republic which appeared on their 1995 album Tüzet viszek. The chords in this song really are not difficult; it is built from basic shapes. If I wanted to…
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Report on the ukulele course of 28 August 2022
Tamás GállLast Sunday I held Course II. I was delighted that there was so much interest that the course was fully booked, so a few minutes after 9:00, 18 enthusiastic ukulele players started making music together. As usual, we worked on rhythm techniques during the morning and learned a few new chords, then i…
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Report on the ukulele course of 21 August 2022
Tamás GállTo be honest, I did not expect so many of us at the course because many people are still on holiday at this time of year, enjoying the final days of summer. To my great delight, however, the room was almost full, and at 9:00 on 21 August 2022 we began the 12th ukulele course with 15 enthusiastic pla…
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Report on the spring 2026 course
Tamás GállLast Saturday a very enthusiastic group came together, and I too was excited to begin the first ukulele course of the year. Several of you asked to borrow a ukulele for the course, and naturally I was happy to bring instruments again. Once more the minutes and hours flew past and the day ended incre…
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