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Uke Tales: George Harrison, Seniors, the Joys of Music, and Hawaiian Legends
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Uke Tales: Hike the Appalachian Trail, Connect with Friends and Family, and More Things You Can Do With Your Ukulele
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Uke Tales: Finding a Jewel
A White Elephant Martin 5K By Sandor Nagyszalanczy Uke Tales is a regular series exploring ukuleles with an interesting story, a personal connection, or simply gorgeous instruments. I’d previously written about my first “good” ukulele, a Martin Style 1, gifted to…
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The Resonator Uke That Never Came to Be
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Uke Tales: An Amazing Coincidence
By Sandor Nagyszalanczy For my most recent “Great Ukes” article in the print magazine [Editor’s note: Summer 2019], I wrote about Gibson ukuleles, including a little history and a take on how much variation there is in their line of…
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Uke Tales: A Story Often Told
By Sandor Nagyszalanczy Uke Tales is an exploration of ukuleles with an interesting story, connection, or just a lovely instrument. I think everybody has a story that they simply love to tell. They love it so much, in fact, that they…
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Uke Tales: My First ‘Real’ Uke: A $1 ca. 1950 Martin Style 0 soprano
By Sandor Nagyszalanczy No matter how good or how bad the experience, we always remember our first times: a first kiss; a first time driving a car; a first musical instrument. Some months ago, I wrote about the first instrument I…
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Discovering a Pre-War Gibson Ukulele’s Military History
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Uke Tales: The Barri-uke
By Sandor Nagyszalanczy Uke Tales is an exploration of some of the author’s ukulele collection, which numbers 400+ instruments, and other instruments that have an interesting story. After considering the amount of candy consumed during and after All Hallows’ Eve, I…