Hey, what's that sound: Ukulele

From George Formby to Jens Lekman, the four-stringed sibling of the guitar has had champions both comical and conventionalWhat is it? A tiny, four-stringed guitar that can look comical or cute when strummed, first popularised in early 21st-century Hawaiian music.Who uses it? Although there are still some leading Hawaiian ukulele players, such as Jake Shimabukuro and Ohta-san, by the 1920s the ukulele had become most associated with music hall and vaudeville. Uke-shredder Roy Smeck, master Disney...

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