ukulele
Small island guitar
A ukulele is a small four-stringed guitar, originally from Hawaii.
It produces a bright, cheerful tone associated with Hawaiian music and has become popular for casual strumming and singalongs: She learned three chords on the ukulele and played them all summer.
Also spelled ukelele.
Fretted stringed instrument
Flower necklace
- hulaGestural Polynesian dance
- luauTraditional island celebration
- alohaHawaiian multipurpose greeting
- tikiPolynesian deity figure
slack-key · steel guitar · islands · beach · tropics · palm · surf · paradise
guitar
Fretted stringed instrument
- banjoFretted drum-stringed instrument
- mandolinPlucked eight-string lute descendant
- balalaikaRussian triangular stringed instrument
cuatro · bouzouki · tres · soprano · concert · tenor · baritone
lei
Flower necklace
tiki · slack-key · steel guitar · islands · beach · tropics · palm · surf · paradise · Waikiki
strumming
Sweeping across guitar strings
- fingerpickingPlucking strings by hand
- chordsSimultaneous note combinations
- fretsWorries or string dividers
tuning · tabs · soprano · concert · tenor · baritone · nylon strings · capo · plucking · chord chart
Eddie Vedder
- music makingsinging, jam session, jam sessions, karaoke, open mic
- musical instrumentssynthesizer, electric guitar, electric bass, keyboard, theremin
- stringed instrumentsguitar, lyre, lute, mandolin, harp
- Hawaiian culturealoha, hula, lei, luau, mahalo
- folk instrumentsbanjo, bodhrán, mandolin, harmonica, fiddle
- Hawaiian musichula, slack-key, falsetto, steel guitar, hula dancer
ukuleledouble bass
Largest bowed string instrument
bass guitar · contrabass · tuba · cello · grand piano
ukulelecello
Deep-voiced bowed instrument
pipe organ · church organ · violin · classical guitar · bagpipes
- ukulele lessonsInstruction on small fretted instrument
- ukulele playerOne performing on small strings
- ukulele songsMusic for four-stringed instrument