Ukulele | Classification | | String instrument (plucked, nylon stringed instrument usually played with the bare thumb and/or fingertips, or a felt pick.) Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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| | Related instruments | | | | The ukulele (from Hawaiian: ʻukulele, pronounced [ʔukulele]), variantly spelled ukelele (particularly in the UK), or alternately abbreviated uke, is a chordophone classified as a plucked lute; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four strings or four courses of strings.[1] A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ...
A string instrument (also stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ...
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The cavaquinho is a small string instrument (like the ukulele) of the European guitar family with four wires or gut strings. ...
The Hawaiian language is an Austronesian language that takes its name from Hawaiʻi, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. ...
A chordophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points. ...
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A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ...
A course is a pair of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and usually plucked together as if a single string, in musical instruments such as the lute, vihuela or mandolin. ...
The ukulele originated in the 19th Century as a Hawaiian interpretation of small Portuguese guitar-like instruments. It gained great popularity elsewhere in the United States during the early 20th Century, and from there spread internationally.
History
Hawaii The ukulele is commonly associated with music from Hawaii, where the name roughly translates as "jumping flea". It was developed there in the 1880s, based on several small guitar-like instruments introduced to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese sailors. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...
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U.S. mainland The ukulele was popularized for a stateside audience[2] during the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held for most of 1915 in San Francisco, at which the Hawaiian Pavilion featured a guitar and ukulele ensemble, George E. K. Awai and his Royal Hawaiian Quartette, along with ukulele maker and player Jonah Kumalae. The popularity of the ensemble with visitors launched a fad for Hawaiian-themed songs among Tin Pan Alley songwriters. The ensemble also introduced both the lap steel guitar and the ukulele into U.S. mainland popular music, where it was taken up by vaudeville performers such as Roy Smeck and Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards. The Palace of Fine Arts from the Exposition The Panama-Pacific International Exposition was a worlds fair held in San Francisco, California between February 20 and December 4 in 1915. ...
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. ...
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Cover of a 1928 instructional book for ukulele by Roy Smeck, the Wizard of the Strings. ...
Cliff Edwards (14 June 1895 – 17 July 1971), also known as Ukelele Ike, was an American singer and musician who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, and also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career. ...
The ukulele became an icon of the Jazz Age as this highly portable and relatively inexpensive instrument also proved popular with amateur players throughout the 1920s, as is evidenced by the introduction of uke chord tablature into the published sheet music for popular songs of the time (a role that would eventually be supplanted by the guitar). A number of mainland-based instrument manufacturers, among them Regal, Harmony, and Martin, added ukulele, banjolele, and tiple lines to their production to take advantage of the demand. The Jazz Age , 1929 movie poster: A Scathing Indictment of the Bewidered Children of Pleasure. ...
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The Regal Musical Instrument Company was established in 1908 in Chicago. ...
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The banjolele (brand name; sometimes banjo ukulele or banjo uke) is a four-stringed musical instrument with a banjo-type body and a neck with sixteen frets (shorter than a banjo, but longer than a ukulele). ...
The Spanish word for treble or soprano, often applied to specific instruments. ...
Types and Tunings
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Construction Ukuleles are generally made of wood, although variants have been made composed partially or entirely of plastic. Cheaper ukuleles are generally made from ply or laminate woods, in some cases with a soundboard of an inexpensive but acoustically superior wood such as spruce. Other more expensive ukuleles are made of exotic hardwoods such as mahogany. Some of the most valuable ukuleles, which may run into the thousands of dollars in price, are made from koa (Acacia koa), a local wood known for its fine tone and attractive colour and figure.photo KOA may mean: Kick Off Association - International association devoted to Dino Dinis games (Kick Off and Player Manager) and organizing annual gathering and international competitions with Kick Off 2 and real Amiga. ...
Ukulele sizes | Type | Scale* length | Total length | Tuning† | | soprano or standard (the original size) | 13" (33 cm) | 21" (53 cm) | g' c' e' a' | | concert | 15" (38 cm) | 23" (58 cm) | g' c' e' a' | | tenor (created in the 1920s) | 17" (43 cm) | 26" (66 cm) | g c' e' a' | | baritone (created in the late 1940s) | 19" (48 cm) | 30" (76 cm) | d g b e' | * The "Scale" is the length of the playable part of the strings, from the nut at the top to the bridge at the bottom. The 1920s they were sexy referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
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† note that on the soprano and concert instruments, the "bottom" or string is actually pitched a 5th higher than the next string (and a Major 2nd below the "top" string)
Another common tuning (also the more 'traditional' tuning) for sopranos and concerts is A D F# B, one step higher than the GCEA tuning. This is said by some to bring out a sweeter tone in some ukuleles, generally smaller ones.
Ukuleles are also often seen in non-standard shapes, such as an oval, usually called a "pineapple" ukulele, or a boat-paddle shape, made popular by the Fluke brand of ukulele, and occasionally a square shape, often made out of an old wooden cigar box.
Unlike most other ukuleles, baritone ukuleles are not re-entrant tuned; instead they are tuned D-G-B-E (low to high), matching the tuning of the top four strings of a guitar.
Though the vast majority of ukuleles fall into the above four categories, there are also bass ukuleles and sopranino ukuleles at the extreme ends of the size spectrum.
Tuning These instruments may have just four strings; or some strings may be paired in courses, giving the instrument a total of six or eight strings. A course is a pair of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave and usually plucked together as if a single string, in musical instruments such as the lute, vihuela or mandolin. ...
The strings or courses are tuned to A6 D6 F#6 B5 or G5 C6 E6 A5 (See Scientific pitch notation for a description of these codes). The chord formations are identical in either tuning, but transposed. This article or section may be confusing for some readers, and should be edited to be clearer or more simplified. ...
Predecessors of the ukulele The ukulele is a descendant of the Madeiran braguinha and rajão. A braguinha is an instrument similar to a cavaquinho, built in the city of Braga and named after it; the Portuguese cavaquinho is usually tuned in D-G-B-D, a G-major chord. The Madeira rajão is tuned D-G-C-E-A. The D and G strings are both re-entrant, i.e., tuned an octave higher than expected in the normal low-to-high course of strings. The GCEA strings of the rajão are the source of the re-entrant tuning of the modern ukulele[1]. For other uses, see Madeira (disambiguation). ...
The cavaquinho is a small string instrument (like the ukulele) of the European guitar family with four wires or gut strings. ...
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Before the invention of the ukulele, Hawaiians referred to the rajão as a "taro-patch fiddle." After the Hawaiian ukulele was invented, the Hawaiians referred to a similar, eight-string instrument tuned GCEA as a taro-patch fiddle. This article is about the plant. ...
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Pronunciation issues While the mainstream American English pronunciation of "ukulele" is /ˌjuːkəˈleɪli/, some English speakers prefer to accurately follow the original Hawaiian pronunciation: /ˌuːkuˈleɪle/. Though the American English pronunciation is more common overall, the Hawaiian pronunciation is favored within Hawaii and by individuals interested in Hawaiian culture.
Similar and related instruments Ukulele variants - Banjo ukulele, or "banjolele"
- Resonator ukulele, also called a "resophonic" or "dobro" ukulele.
- Electric ukulele
- Tahitian ukulele, also called "Tahitian banjo"; an 8-stringed open-backed ukulele
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Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2008) | - ^ Erich M. von Hornbostel & Curt Sachs, "Classification of Musical Instruments: Translated from the Original German by Anthony Baines and Klaus P. Wachsmann." The Galpin Society Journal 14, 1961: 3-29.
- ^ A Little Uke History
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