Every music lover and musician has ever seen small guitars - ukuleles. Many ignorant people are sure that the ukulele is just a miniature children's guitar made to be a toy. In fact, this is not so at all.
Ukulele is a success in the music world. Many famous guitarists used ukuleles to record their songs. A striking example is the ex-Beatle George Harrison, who played ukulele no worse than a standard big guitar.
So what is ukulele? Such a strange name is given to a small traditional ukulele, to the live accompaniment of which all those travelers who at least once visited Honolulu danced.
This instrument has only four strings, so mastering the game on it is as easy as learning how to play the Russian balalaika.
Ukulele are, as you might guess, a little. An excellent copy will cost 5 thousand rubles. If you need a small guitar just to browse, then you can buy a cheaper model. The sound quality depends on the skill of the guitarist, and not on the price of the product.
A ukulele always needs a strong and reliable cover. This small tool is very fragile. Therefore, an ideal option would be to buy a hard case that will ideally fit the shape of your new ukulele.
Classes for playing classical guitar usually cost a lot of money. If you have a small guitar, then you can completely forget about paid courses. The popularity of ukulele in Russia is still very insignificant, so many masters of playing this guitar conduct their lessons openly and absolutely free of charge, which cannot but please everyone who wants to learn how to play this excellent representative of the pinch family.
There is even a chance that you will be given a guitar for hire. This practice exists in many ukulele training centers. In this case, you don’t have to spend money at all, which, by the way, greatly simplifies the task. After training, you can already make a decision - do you need your own little guitar for further music lessons or the one that was rented is quite enough.
Ukulele was in the last century a real discovery for the music world. As mentioned earlier, many musicians began to master this unusual instrument. Ukulele helped give their songs a touch of Hawaiian motifs and spice up rock songs with a sauce of folk music, something many authors lacked.
A small ukulele guitar, which is most important, is suitable not only for playing on stage, but will also help brighten up a gray autumn evening. Guitarists who can play ukulele are also in demand now. Many townspeople are tired of harmonists playing on the streets for money. A person with a ukulele can arouse genuine interest among passers-by with both the look of his musical instrument and his “vocal” data, because the sound of a ukulele is as soft and enveloping as the warm air of the beaches of distant Hawaiian islands that will never leave you indifferent. who ever steps on their sands.