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Kawai Carvalho’s Coast ’Ukulele Blossoms Out of a Family Tragedy

'I was blown away by how I felt building these instruments, how connected I felt to them, how there was this calming energy to making them.'

Learn to play waltz, doo-wop, gospel, swinging blues, soul, and other styles in 3/4, 6/8, and 12/8 time signatures

This 22-song album includes friends, influences, and colleagues dating all the way back to his teen years at Kaimuki High School in Honolulu

When news of the devastation first broke, there was a rallying cry from the worldwide ukulele community of “How can I help?”

With old-growth wood and modern features, this uke sounds as good as you'd hope and plays effortlessly

This reharmonized version adds some colorful chords and a smooth turnaround

The banjo-ukulele is one of the most powerful spices in the ukulele world

Gibson introduced its first ukulele banjo, the UB model, sometime around 1925

In this lesson from our Chord by Chord video series, you'll learn how to build chords from scales.

Making music with the ukulele is accessible and social, but what if you want study the instrument at the degree level in university?