Learning any instrument for the first time is going to take time and dedication. There are so many benefits to learning an instrument. Once you get the hang of it, playing music can help relieve ...

For retiree Rosie Micallef, the musicians who sit alongside her while she strums the ukulele have become the family she doesn't have nearby. "I don't have relatives in Queensland, so they're my family ...

The modest ukulele is enjoying a surge in popularity. Once considered a novelty, the four-stringed instrument is ready to be taken seriously. In Spitalfields, where London's financial district borders ...

What is it? A tiny, four-stringed guitar that can look comical or cute when strummed, first popularised in early 20th-century Hawaiian music. Who uses it? Although there are still some leading ...

Sometimes small things can bring the greatest joy. This is very true, especially in the case of the ukulele, the four-stringed instrument known for its melodic tones. It is said that the Hawaiian word ...

"It's an activist instrument," declared Eddie Vedder last week, speaking by phone from a Seattle recording studio. He wasn't talking about the Fender electric he once decorated in tribute to the late ...

Its frisky four strings are the sound of Elvis’s “Blue Hawaii,” of Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips and lately, beyond all reason, of a popular “Bohemian Rhapsody” cover. Above all, the humble ...

For some, a musical instrument is an impressive and creative gift, and the hit Christmas product in music shops for the third year in a row is the unassuming ukulele. Guitarist Jocke Kulju is an ...

From hundreds of Bella Ciao covers to Kalki Koechlin’s lullabies — the ukulele seems to have taken social media by storm in the lockdown. Not just musicians, actors, muggles and several others are ...