It is used to provide a bright sound to many pieces of music. It is a small, easy to play and carry instrument that can be taken just about anywhere.
The instrument know today as the ukulele was created about 1880 in Hawaii.
To make music!
It is used to change the tuning of the ukulele.
The standard tuning used today of gCEA re-entrant tuning gives you a C6 chord.
What we know today as the ukulele originated in Hawaii. Portugese immigrants created them based on their machete instruments about 1879.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain uses them exclusively. Many Hawaiian groups concentrate on the ukulele.
The ukulele is gaining popularity and shows up in many compositions today. One of the most recent is "Hey Soul Sister" by Train that starts with the ukulele.
The ukulele is a stringed instrument of the plucked lute family. Many groups use the ukulele, Train is one of the current ones.
It would be a noun normally, but could be used as an adjective. He played the ukulele. Noun He picked up some ukulele music. Adjective.
He played a variety of different types of ukulele and is famous for his banjolele, though he used a standard ukulele in a number of movies.
The standard ukulele has 4 strings. You can get them with up to eight strings.
The steel guitar is related to the ukulele and both are commonly used in Hawaiian music.