Ukepedia » ukulele http://www.ukepedia.com/blog Wikipedia performed on the Ukelele Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:26:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Fozzie Bear http://www.ukepedia.com/blog/2010/02/fozzie-bear/ http://www.ukepedia.com/blog/2010/02/fozzie-bear/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:26:27 +0000 louisa http://www.ukepedia.com/blog/?p=78 At the weekend, John discovered Chat Roulette and before too long, had written a silly song to sing at the unwitting Rouletters (the chorus: “I’m playing Chat, Chat Roulette, with a bunch of weirdos on the internet, I’m playing Chat, Chat Roulette”). Most people just clicked next or continued masturbating but a few people stopped to listen and one of those people was James.

Taken by the simple ditty, James fetched his own ukelele and John taught him the song so they could duet over the laggy connection, then James had to run out to go to a gig but not before John aggressively promoted Ukepedia at him.

Today, this arrived in our inbox and James was crowned as the latest star in the Ukeverse. It’s not a short article; it’s not abridged; it’s 8 minutes 16 seconds long. James is AWESOME.

(Yes, it’s on a guitar but we don’t mind.)

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UPDATE: Mike Nolan broadcast the performance live over Qik! The recording is here, and includes the whole talk by the looks of it.

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I’m sure it will come as no surprise that Wikipedia has an article on the Ukelele. What may come as a surprise however is that Rob is twice the size of normal humans and is playing a regular guitar in the video.

Rob appears courtesy of West Yorkshire’s one-time second-best three-piece acoustic folk-country-scifi-gospel fusion band The Gillroyd Parade.

Lyrics

The ukulele
from Hawaiian
ʻukulele’
variantly spelled
ukelele
(particularly in the UK),
or alternatively abbreviated uke,
is a chordophone classified as a plucked lute,
it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four strings or four courses of strings.

Tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and construction.
Ukuleles
come in four sizes, Soprano, Concert, Tenor, and Baritone.

Ukulele
varieties include hybrid instruments such as the banjo
ukulele
harp
ukulele
and lap steel
ukulele.

There is an electrically amplified version, the electric
ukulele
The resonator
ukulele is louder and of different tone quality than traditional wooden
ukuleles
producing sound by one or more spun aluminium cones (resonators) instead of the wooden soundboard. Another unique variant is the Tahitian
ukulele
which is usually carved from a single piece of wood and does not have a hollow soundbox.

See also
List of ukulele manufacturers
List of ukulele musicians
This to be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
ukulele

Lyrics are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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