Ukulele: The World’s Friendliest Instrument Daniel Dixon Gibbs Smith Publishing Hardcover 144 Pages Audience – Any Player Rating – Ukulele pictured – c. 1960’s Silvertone Baritone Lavishly illustrated it follows the same general format as most ukulele books. It starts with a history of the instrument and its emergence from Hawaii to the rest of […]
Get Plucky With the Ukulele Will Grove-White Paperback – Octopus Books 176 Pages and Foldout Chart Audience – Any Player Rating – Ukulele pictured – Custom Talsma Ukulele Will Grove-White was bitten by the ukulele bug early in life. As a teenager, he became enamored with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and was quickly […]
The ‘Ukulele, A History Jim Tranquada and John King University of Hawai’i Press Paperback – 282 Pages Audience – Serious History buffs only Rating – Ukulele pictured – Ohana SK35-GS While the book is 282 pages long, it is not nearly that much for straight reading. It contains 2 Appendices and almost 100 pages of […]
The Ukulele, A Visual History – Revised & Expanded Jim Beloff Backbeat Books Hardcover or Paperback – 127 Pages Audience – All levels Rating – Ukulele pictured above – Lyon & Healey – 1924 – Washburn Style 702 When I started my ukulele journey many years ago, this was the only ukulele book available in […]