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The ukelele, it seems, is back: http://education.guardian.co.uk/artinschools/story/0,,2192761,00.htmlMusicians can tell if a piece is any good or not by playing it on the ukelele. Allegedly. |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
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MT Wessel
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« Reply #1 on: 01:01:04, 17-10-2007 » |
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http://cdbaby.com/cd/johnking2Er. Itchy credit card time gentlemen please ?
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« Reply #2 on: 08:49:38, 17-10-2007 » |
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The mind boggles.. first at Reiner's post then at this... crikey !!  A |
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« Reply #3 on: 10:26:19, 17-10-2007 » |
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With my little  pool Rock, along the promenade I stroll. It may be sticky but I never complain, it's nice to have a nibble at it now and again In my pocket it got stuck I could tell ‘Cos when I pulled it out I pulled my shirt off as well |
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« Reply #6 on: 13:38:38, 17-10-2007 » |
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« Reply #7 on: 14:46:12, 17-10-2007 » |
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Disgraceful ! I gave someone a ukelele as a present a few years ago. Lord, I knew not what I did ! |
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Disgraceful ! I gave someone a ukelele as a present a few years ago. Lord, I knew not what I did ! God... really? didn't you like your friends? A |
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« Reply #9 on: 15:31:59, 17-10-2007 » |
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Disgraceful ! I gave someone a ukelele as a present a few years ago. Lord, I knew not what I did ! God... really? didn't you like your friends? A Works every time!  |
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« Reply #10 on: 15:49:25, 17-10-2007 » |
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Well, I'm no particular fan of the ukulele repertoire/genre, but I do think there is a lot to be said for schoolchildren having a positive hands-on musical experience. In a sense, the instrument doesn't matter, what matters is doing it, sometimes a little roughly at first. Only by having that experience is there any chance that kids might progress towards competence on that or another instrument.
Over the years I have met scores of people who have attested to having a positive musical experience by participating in practical music making. Some have returned to playing long after they quit school, some have been able through their own experience to inspire their own children to stick with the practising.
Far better a room full of squeaky nascent recorder players, than no recorder players at all.
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #11 on: 17:18:37, 17-10-2007 » |
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I was surprised to find you can buy a playable ukelele for about £15... I got two from Macari's in Charing X Road last year as props for a show. However, one of our violinists (who is also a guitarist) took an interest in the thing (they are attractive and brightly-coloured, for sure) and retuned it to open fifths... even played Bach partitas on it (for amusement, I hasten to add). I can see an educational value in learning an instrument capable of at least simple polyphony - recorders are all very well (and I play them myself) but it's a very narrow field of interest... I suppose you can go on to the clarinet from there (being the closest w/w instrument)? I wonder what the "next step" is from the ukelele? It would be great to get more kids playing orchestral strings, and fun for them too - there's almost no sphere of music from which you're excluded as a violinist    a role model for British schoolchildren?PS Having slightly taken Mr Formby's reputation in vain in the thread title, I then found that all the pics that show up in Google show him playing... the banjo? And not the ukelele at all. |
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« Reply #12 on: 17:22:50, 17-10-2007 » |
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Although come to think of it, there's at least one ukelelist I can take seriously... |
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Well, I'm no particular fan of the ukulele repertoire/genre, but I do think there is a lot to be said for schoolchildren having a positive hands-on musical experience. In a sense, the instrument doesn't matter, what matters is doing it, sometimes a little roughly at first. Only by having that experience is there any chance that kids might progress towards competence on that or another instrument.
Over the years I have met scores of people who have attested to having a positive musical experience by participating in practical music making. Some have returned to playing long after they quit school, some have been able through their own experience to inspire their own children to stick with the practising.
Far better a room full of squeaky nascent recorder players, than no recorder players at all.
I agree Martin, but I do wonder at the competence of the classroom teacher to tune a ukelele. My experience is that most of them have no idea whatsoever. In the local authority I worked for they provided each primary school with a zither at one time, and no-one, I mean no-one at all was able to tune them and therefore use them, so they were all put into cupboards and completely neglected ... sad eh?! When I first started teaching I had to teach recorders, and I remember with glee one concert when I was in fact temporarily deaf conducting 180 eleven year old boys playing a piece in 3 parts in the concert. To be able to say to my colleague 'Did that sound ok?' was sheer delight!!!!!  A |
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