How to pronounce “ukulele” in English

Ukulele Ike's real name was Cliff Edwards.

Ukulele Ike's stuff is all available-- are you all enjoying this talk by the way?

Ukulele is a very versatile instrument indeed.

The ukulele brings nothing but smiles.

She played ukulele.

Here's the ukulele.

But I was playing ukulele.

They called it the ukulele, jumping flea, and then it got popularized from then.

They love ukulele. They hired me to come up there and teach them to teach the directors to play the ukulele.

He played a banjo ukulele.

Any history of ukulele in the blues?

Because on the ukulele, you always want more.

I think that the ukulele is very special.

But with the ukulele-- I mean, my grandmother just started playing the ukulele.

They come with the ukulele players.

And the ukulele is kind of like on the complete opposite of the spectrum, you know, it's kind of like -- it's the most simple of all instruments.

But the ukulele was definitely not one of those instruments.

But the ukulele for some reason, I just fell in love with it.

And with the ukulele it's a little tricky because there aren't, you know, you don't -- it's not like you can -- if you play the trumpet,

But with the ukulele, it's like, if you want to learn how to play Flamenco ukulele, you're not really going to able to find a Flamenco player and listen to them,

I'm a hack ukulele lay lee player but, umm, speaking of which.

They had the ukuleles with them.

And so the first ukuleles were built by Portuguese craftsmen.

If I'm into playing the ukulele, which I am, and I want to watch a video that's going to help teach me

Or maybe it might have been a ukulele-- Yeah, it was a guitar.

I am learning to play the ukulele.

So Stephanie Gray is actually an avid ukulele player.

I don't actually play the ukulele, a fact of which I am proud.

They didn't invent the ukulele.

So I started-- I bought a ukulele in a pawnshop, P-A-W-N, in Los Angeles, a Martin.

The Martin company begins to build the ukulele.

There wouldn't have been a ukulele then.

And I'm accompanying him on the ukulele.

When I was playing the ukulele in the '60s, people laughed at me.

You couldn't hit anybody with a ukulele.

You did a couple different styles of ukulele playing.

Did that change how people played the ukulele?

And that's-- we love the ukulele, but it's also with an eye towards trying some acoustic guitars.

It doesn't sound like a ukulele.

We'd always play the ukulele together.

And so I think playing the ukulele for me was-- in my mind, now looking back at everything-- was kind of like that was me trying to make up for those

Like when I'm playing the ukulele and I'm going to play a chord, it's not just the mechanics.

Like even when you're playing the ukulele, that's what I'm thinking.

And they don't look like ukulele players.

And they just think the ukulele is the coolest thing.

People would start on the ukulele.

But he thought that because the ukulele is shorter, if you were to put one mic here at the body and one mic here at

Jimmy: He plays a fairly good ukulele but we'll get him out here one day.

And I started playing the ukulele when I was four years old.