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	<title>Nalu Music</title>
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	<description>Ukulele Arcade</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How I Learned to Play the &#8216;Ukulele</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(Without Really Trying)
by John King
et me tell you a secret. The ‘ukulele is Portuguese. It’s true. A trio of Portuguese woodworkers from the island of Madeira, who emigrated to Hawai‘i in 1879, began making the little four-string guitars in Honolulu in the 1880s. But they didn’t call them ‘ukuleles back then; instead, they used the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Cabbages &#038; Kings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In search of the manufacturer of the Royal Hawaiian &#8216;ukulele
by John King

The maker of the Royal Hawaiian ‘ukulele remains a mystery. It is likely, but not proven, that they were produced by Kumalae for the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

—Chuck Fayne, Finding Paradise
he imprimatur of royalty has always been coveted by musical instrument makers and other artisans, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Strum Through ‘Ukulele History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Madeira to Hawaii to the San Francisco Bay
by John King and Jim Tranquada
n April 23, 1907—almost a year to the day following San Francisco’s great earthquake—Jack London and his wife, Charmian, sailed London’s yacht Snark through the Golden Gate bound for Hawaii on the first leg of a projected round-the-world cruise. Twenty-seven days later, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On plastic</title>
		<link>http://www.nalu-music.com/about-maccaferri-plastic-ukuleles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A popular-priced, high quality professional instrument
he act of substituting experimental materials for traditional ones in the process of string instrument building is as old as the craft itself. The gradual discovery and implementation of new and better tonewoods, appropriate uses of slab and bias-cut lumber, improvements in design, and gains in the sciences of physics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Die Verwandlung</title>
		<link>http://www.nalu-music.com/die-verwandlung/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ne morning Edward Purvis awoke from a bad dream to find himself transformed into a diminutive, verminous insect. That&#8217;s the story, anyway: an article by Lorin Tarr Gill entitled &#8220;Portuguese Were First To Introduce Ukulele In Hawaii Says Miss Roberts&#8221; published in the magazine section of the Honolulu Advertiser on August 10, 1924. Forty-five years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes of a sub-sub librarian</title>
		<link>http://www.nalu-music.com/notes-of-a-sub-sub-librarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[n June 2005, I received an email from Dr. Gerhard Stradner, the Curator Emeritus of the Sammlung Alter Musikinstrumente (Collection of Historic Musical Instruments) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum at the Neue Burg in Vienna. He had read my article, &#8220;A few words about the Madeiran Machete,&#8221; in the Galpin Society Journal and wanted me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give me some wine, and let me speak a little.</title>
		<link>http://www.nalu-music.com/give-me-some-wine-and-let-me-speak-a-little/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;God gave the Portuguese a small country as a cradle but all the world as their grave.&#8221;—António Vieira, 17th century.
I was looking for the grave of Augusto Dias. It would have been about as old as the weathered marker in front of me, which I regarded with sober curiosity: a gray slab of crumbling, porous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ghosts of Ernest Kaai</title>
		<link>http://www.nalu-music.com/the-ghosts-of-ernest-kaai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[emember the “free-roaming, vaporous, full-torso apparition” at the New York Public Library in the opening sequence of the 1984 film Ghostbusters? It spewed cards from the card catalog, blew books from the stacks and scared the socks off the prim librarian. Only in the movies, right? Well, think again. Ghosts do exist. Particularly in libraries. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiding in plain sight: Kolomona</title>
		<link>http://www.nalu-music.com/hiding-in-plain-sight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John King</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I first came across this beautiful image in Nathaniel Emerson&#8217;s pioneering work, Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula (Washington, D.C., 1909). Captioned &#8216;Hawaiian Musician Playing on the Uku-lele&#8217; and printed with the permission of the artist, Hubert Vos (1855-1935), I was dumbfounded that this masterful painting was virtually unknown in the [...]]]></description>
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