BEAUTY-BEAUTY

It is rose season and a new tenor has  also blossomed This uke has a pretty Koa body, Western red Cedar soundboard and an Ironbark fretboard and bridge. With its Mahogany neck and and gold hued tuners this is a handsome instrument. The tuners are the excellent Gotah UPTs on a European Birch head plate

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Uke Tales: Pixie Dust, 1,000 Beansprouts, Defining Jazz, Your Favorite Ukulele

This edition of Uke Tales features your responses to our queries about favorite ukes and jazz music, plus some heartwarming personal stories. Thanks for writing in!  Like Tinkerbell The ukulele holds a special place in my heart, and one of my favorite quotes captures this sentiment perfectly: “Ukulele gives me wings.”  It all started back

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Funny Irish ukulele song for St. Patrick’s Day–free download – SullivanDanno

Let me ask you a question: Are you Irish? Most people in the world aren’t. But when St. Patrick’s Day rolls around, everyone and his brother suddenly starts speakin’ the brogue, wearin’ the green, and kissin’ the blarney. Surely, for one day, it’s ok stereotype a group most of us don’t belong to? Why else would

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Always. Sometimes. Never.

I don’t believe I’ve ever shared this sweet story with you. You probably know that my entrée to show-biz was as an awkward teenage magician. The same way I love ukulele now is how I loved sleight-of-hand back then. And just like we have uke clubs all over the place now, there are clubs in

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His Royal High-G-ness

Photo Credit: Toby Melville / POOL / AFP via Getty  As reported on MSN: “King Charles joined a local ukulele ensemble during a visit to Ards Allotments in County Down on the final day of his Northern Ireland tour with Queen Camilla on Thursday. The 77-year-old monarch strummed along with the Loughries Men’s Shed Ukulele Ensemble

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Great Ukes: Gibson’s Creative and Innovative Ukuleles are Still Sought After by Collectors

STORY AND PHOTOS BY SANDOR NAGYSZALANCZY | FROM THE SPRING 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE Riding a wave of success propelled by its inventive guitars, mandolins, and banjos, Gibson started producing ukuleles around 1926–27, a decade or so after Martin had established itself as America’s premier ukulele maker. Gibson’s entry into the uke market reflected

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Learn to Play ‘Coquette,’ an Approachable Arrangement of a Jazz Standard Built from Simple Shapes

“Coquette” is a pop tune turned jazz standard, written in 1928 by Carmen Lombardo and Johnny Green with lyrics by Gus Kahn (of “I’ll See You in My Dreams” fame), not to be confused with the Irving Berlin song of the same title, also published that year. Although the tune was released that year by

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