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Truss rods on Pono ukuleles

Armelle Europe — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:06:07 +0000

I never knew my Pono baritone ukulele had a truss rod until a couple of weeks ago. I suddendly noticed, much to my horror, that my Pono had started to buzz badly when I played certain strings. I knew the strings were not to blame as I had changed them shortly before the buzz first occurred.

I couldn’t understand what caused the sudden change in the sound. I hadn’t dropped my ukulele and it had received no shock, nor did I leave…

UK ukulele tour

Armelle Europe — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:31:32 +0000

For those of you looking for an alternative to Christmas ukulele music, I’ve decided to put up a post focusing on ukulele videos from the United-Kingdom.

The first video is performed by my friend Lou aka Bossarocker who really has a rich and soulful voice. I wish she’d make more videos and I really hope that her EP will come out soon.

Lou performs Bob Dylan‘s In My Time Of Dying on her new cigar box ukulele.

Al covers Bert…

Tab for Maelström, ukulele original

Armelle Europe — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:34:48 +0000

I was at the same time pleased and embarrassed when I was asked for the tab for my original tune Maelström. Pleased in the sense that it felt great to hear that a piece of music I had written was appreciated and embarrassed because I had never thought of ever tabbing Maelström, having but very little knowledge of music theory.

I have written Maelström completely ‘by ear’, relying only on how…

Norway, Canada, Italy, Brazil, Australia: Ukulele World Tour

Armelle Europe — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:53:16 +0000

You’re in for a really international feel today as our ukulele trip will take us all around the globe: this will take you to Norway for some singing in Russian, to Canada for some West African Guitar Style strumming applied to the ukulele, to Italy for a classic and finally to Brazil and Australia with local singers and ukulele players Rick Melo and Tyrone.

Country: Norway / Language: Russian

Mr Arvemann and Line Mehlum from Norway sing Миленький ты мой, a Russian folk song…

HappySad, Maja Koman, Ukulele and Polish

Armelle Europe — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:39:50 +0000

Let me invite you to a trip to Poland today where you’ll get to hear two Polish ukulele players in two different styles. Tune your ears to the Polish language while listening to the songs and the interviews…

HappySad is a popular Polish rock band formed in 2001. In the following acoustic live session for Balcony TV Poznan, two members of the band perform the song Kostuchna from their album Mów mi dobrze on ukulele and guitar. Check out the steady ukulele…

Ukulele Online Magazine : Pluck n°2

Armelle Europe — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:31:08 +0000

Why not learn French while reading about your favourite subject _ the ukulele ?

The PLUCK is an online ukulele magazine created by a team of French ukulele aficionados, dealing with a wide variety of ukulele aspects and very neatly laid out. At the moment, the PLUCK is all in French but the PLUCK team has already announced that they would work on an English translation.

Here is an overview of what you can find in the PLUCK n° 2:…

Siri Nilsen, ukulele and Norwegian

Armelle Europe — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:03:18 +0000

Norwegian singer and ukulele player Siri Nilsen has just released a new album, Alle Snakker Sant (Everybody is telling the truth). Those of you looking to learn or pratise Norwegian will definitely appreciate her lovely voice and very clear lyrics together with her ukulele fingerpicking.

: Lillebjørn Nilsen, who is a renowned Norwegian singer and songwriter and also Siri's father sent me the link to…

A memorable one-weekend ukulele trio

Armelle Europe — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:48:09 +0000

The last weekend of October has been a very memorable weekend where Flamby1er from the COULE came to visit and joined my friend Guillaume and I for an intensive 2-day-ukulele and guitar session.

The three of us hadn’t played together for over a year and it was great to find out and share what we had learnt in that time frame.

We focused on a handful of songs, trying to get them to…

Questions to Al Wood, Ukulele for Dummies and Uke Hunt author

Armelle Europe — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:14:55 +0000

As you may or may not have noticed, I have considerably slowed down on my blog writing lately. Fear not, although I have made myself scarce to reflect on some essential life questions, I have no intention of giving up writing about Ukulele and Languages and I am hoping to come back to speed from November 2011 onward.

While I have been taking time off the blog, Al Wood, the witty web author of

Polish, Serbian, Thai, Greek, Kadazan : Ukulele World Tour

Armelle Europe — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:26:16 +0000

This World Tour Post will make you travel to Eastern and Southern Europe as well as Asia and should delight your ears with a wide variety of languages.

Many thanks to Al from the best ukulele blog Uke Hunt for sending me links to many of the videos featured in this post.

1. Country: United-Kingdom / Language : Polish

British singer and songwriter Katy Carr performs O Moj Rozmarynie

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