Comments on: Ukulele History – A Brief and Inaccurate Guide

By: Mani

Mani — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:29:23 +0000

^
Nice, Woodshed.
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By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:34:05 +0000

Polly: Too many capital letters and punctuation marks?

By: Polly KitKat

Polly KitKat — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:30:53 +0000

it was useless

By: Steve Provost

Steve Provost — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:38:34 +0000

To Marisa Javier – Marisa, very interesting bit of historical trivia about your great-great grandfather. Surely you must have more information. Have you ever considered writing a book?

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:34:43 +0000

Marisa: Thanks for the info.

By: Marisa Javier

Marisa Javier — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:24:55 +0000

Manuel Nunes went to Hawaii from the Azores, where he crafted stringed instruments for the Portuguese people. He saw the Hawaiian people did not have a stringed instrument, so invented the ukulele by combining 2 of the Portuguese instruments. He later opened a factory to build ukuleles and taught others.

He was my great-great grandfather.

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:13:41 +0000

karl: Lol!

By: karl

karl — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:35:48 +0000

A prominent scientist conducted very important experiment. He trained a flea to jump upon giving her a verbal command (“Jump!”).

In the first stage of experiment he removed flea’s leg, told her to jump, and the flea jumped. So he wrote in his scientific notebook: “Upon removing one leg all flea organs function properly.”

So, he removed the second leg, asked the flea to jump, she obeyed, so he wrote again: “Upon removing the second leg all flea organs function properly.”

Thereafter he removed all the legs but one, the flea jumped when ordered, so he wrote again: “Upon removing the next leg all flea organs function properly.”

Then he removed the last leg. Told flea to jump, and nothing happened. He did not want to take a chance, so he repeated the experiment several times, and the leg less flea never jumped. So he wrote the conclusion: “Upon removing the last leg the flea loses sense of hearing”

By: D!no

D!no — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:25:35 +0000

This is everything you promised and perhaps a tiny bit more :) Waiting in line at a music store moments ago on my lunch break I found myself at a standstill in front of the Uke display. Passersby and other line-standers enjoyed my brief solo, and one lady with a young son bought one. I taught the boy a C and told her about this site – I’ve learned more about my instrument here in 24 hours than I had in the year I’ve owned my Luna!
Thanks,
~D!

By: mandy

mandy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:16:37 +0000

Enjoying your site very much.
Your readers and Uke fans might be interested to learn that apparently Gorge Harrison’s favorite instrument to play at home was the Ukulele. (While his guitar gently wept…)