Where Ukulele Come From
The history of the ukulele can be traced back to Portugal’s Madeira Islands, where its ancestors were small guitar-like instruments called machete, braguinha and cavaquinho. When Portuguese settlers arrived in Hawaii, they missed their beloved machete and other instruments from home. So they opened shops in Honolulu to craft replicas of this small four-stringed instrument. […]
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