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ukulele
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
ukulele , Hawaiian musical instrument developed from the Portuguese guitar. It has a fretted fingerboard and four strings that are plucked or strummed. Patented in 1917, the ukulele became popular in the United States in the 1920s. It is also spelled ukelele.
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Reading, Peter
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...verse form, and subject matter. Titles include Nothing for Anyone (1977), C (1984, a grim meditation on cancer), and Ukulele Music (1985). Reading contrasts a reporter's unsparing evocation of the underside and underclass of non-metropolitan...
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Hendrix, Jimi
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...wanted a guitar early on. Before acquiring his first real instrument, he "played" guitar on a broom and on a one-stringed ukulele. At last Al got his son a guitar, and the twelve-year-old Jimi began to teach himself to play. Jimi restrung the guitar...
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Sinatra, Frank
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in a mainly Italian American working-class neighborhood. His first experience with music came when his uncle gave him a ukulele, and on hot summer nights he loved to go outside and sing while playing the instrument. His other interest was boxing. To...
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de Sylva, Brown, and Henderson
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...born in New York and raised in Los Angeles. While attending the University of Southern California, he performed with a small ukulele combo and wrote some of their songs. One of these songs, “‘N’ Everything,” caught...
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HAWAIIAN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...Hawaiian into English are common locally but few in the general language: a'a and pahoehoe lava which cools rough and smooth respectively, ukelele/ukulele a jumping flea whose name was given to an adaptation of the Portuguese guitar.
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tablature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...differing systems existed in Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Tablatures are used today to notate music for guitar and ukulele. These have vertical lines representing strings of the instrument, horizontal lines for the frets, and dots to show the...
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Fields, Dorothy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...you lookin' swell, baby / But diamond bracelets Woolworth's doesn't sell, baby"). It was later recorded by Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards, Gene Austin, Billie Holiday, and Louis Armstrong, who had a strong identification with several other Field
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Handler, Ruth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...profit in 1945 and the Handlers found themselves in the toy business. One of Mattel's first successful products was a toy ukulele called the Uke – A – Doodle. Its release in 1947 was also a learning experience for the Handlers, as...
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Chet Atkins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...siblings who played instruments, Atkins was surrounded by music from birth. At the age of six he played his first instrument, a ukulele, replacing broken strings with wire pulled from a screen door. Three years later he began playing a Sears Silvertone guitar...
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