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Somewhere Over the Rainbow
When someone asks what instrument I am carrying and I tell them that it is a ukulele, they immediately smile and say, “Ah, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, right?” The history of the song goes back to 1939, whe…
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A bundám szőrös... (Swiss children's song)
I would like to teach you a sweet and simple Swiss children's song on the ukulele, with Hungarian lyrics written by István Csukás. Strictly speaking, he did not write lyrics for the entire original song, o…
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A Flemish folk song (lullaby)
I would like to teach you a very sweet lullaby, the Flemish folk song beginning "Szép gyermekem..." (“My beautiful child...”). Before we get to the song itself, I warmly recommend the Ringató – Lila könyv…
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Fyodor M. Dostoevsky and the Devil
For a long time I have had the thought that it would be worth arranging something by Tamás Cseh — and making a video about it — because his guitar-and-vocal format, even though many songs later add further…
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Nemzeti dal — reloaded
You could say this post is a case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, since 15 March was already a few weeks ago — incidentally, the day my third child was born — and I am only now publi…
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Scott Joplin — The Entertainer
This 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,…
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