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Late-summer ukulele courses
Tamás GállDear (Future) Ukulele Players! Some of you could not attend the courses at the beginning of the summer, and several people also emailed to say they would like to come to the next one. I am delighted to announce two more ukulele courses at the very end of summer and the beginning of autumn: Ukulele C…
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Late-summer Ukulele Course I — report
Tamás GállAfter the June courses I received a steady stream of emails and Facebook messages asking about new course dates, so I did not waste any time: I organised Course I and Course II for 29 August and 5 September respectively courses. Yesterday, 29 August 2021, greeted us with a cooler-than-usual but stil…
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Lanikai UkeSB
Tamás GállAt first I did not know what to make of this name when I saw it on the Lanikai website. Since "uke" is the common English abbreviation and nickname for ukulele, I assumed it must be some soprano, baritone or perhaps sub-bass :) device. Looking at the UkeSB logo makes the guessing a little easier: uk…
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*(l)ele
Tamás GállI watch with admiration these inventive and highly skilled people who make instruments for themselves out of all sorts of objects. From shoeboxes and bedpans to tennis rackets, they stretch four strings across almost anything and there you have it: an instrument. Some of them sound surprisingly good…
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Interview with Charlotte Pelgen
Tamás GállFor the English version please click here. / Open the English version. In my previous post, The Hungaria Ukulele Blog Is 10 Years Old , I wrote a few words about how I use Instagram and Twitter less often, but that my Instagram account has nevertheless led to several ukulele friendships. That is whe…
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Interview with Abe Lagrimas Jr.
Tamás GállOpen the English version. / For the English version please click here. I first saw Abe in a YouTube video ten years ago, and I could hardly believe my eyes — or, more importantly, my ears — that such sensational jazz could come out of a ukulele. I remember thinking, “This guy is amazing.” Until a fe…
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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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If Freddie Mercury Had Owned a Ukulele...
Tamás GállYesterday afternoon I was excitedly waiting for Bea, Sanyi and Imi so that we could spend a few hours under the spell of a total of sixteen strings. The intercom rang, and moments later I was sitting in a circle with three friendly, enthusiastic ukulele players. After a quick tuning we started playi…
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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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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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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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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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