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There are even a few made by Manuel Nunes, the first master ukulele maker He died two months later The following year, the museum acquired nonprofit status and the group began raising money to find it a permanent home ukulele I They soon formed a band comprised entirely of ukulele players, touring the East Coast in the mid-1990s The billionaire financier Warren Buffett is said to play one before board meetings (to date he hasn't responded to fund-raising overtures from museum organizers) org http://ukediner I play the ukulele "But the dream is still very much alive Wasser and Abbotson got to know other aficionados, including Paul Syphers of Duxbury, Mass fleamarketmusic It's small Couple Has Shrine to Ukuleles Oct 30, 12:39 PM EST CRANSTON, R " "Wherever he took me, all his friends played the ukulele," says Abbotson, who had no choice but to join in "You can tell that they're just so deeply passionate about the instrument In recent years, however, it's made a comeback R There are ukes painted with tropical landscapes, ukes made by high-end guitar makers like National and Martin, and "banjo ukes," constructed and played like a banjo For now, Wasser and Abbotson's house serves as the museum's temporary home The place is cluttered with the diminutive instruments, which line every wall, upstairs and down They hope one day to find this stockpile a permanent home somewhere in a Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum, along with books, recordings, photographs and bits of Hawaiiana Six months later, when he met his future wife while both were in graduate school at the University of Connecticut, he introduced himself: "Hi, I'm Dave "The Hawaiians saw them playing it and they liked it," Abbotson says Though modern-day players have taken the instrument to new levels of technical mastery, Beloff claims he can teach anyone to play the ukulele in 60 seconds But the ukulele eventually faded into obscurity, except as a curiosity for tourists in Hawaii com J Currently, the organization makes just enough to stay afloat "It started as a joke," says Abbotson " The collection includes ukuleles made from cigar boxes and coconut shells Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder is also a self-professed fan Yet in a modest home on a quiet street, Sue Abbotson and her husband, Dave Wasser, have assembled a shrine to that most Hawaiian of instruments: the ukulele " Though its mellow tone conjures images of hula dancers and swaying palms, the ukulele actually has its roots on the Portuguese island of Madeira Membership â€â€? which requires a minimum donation of $24 â€â€? has grown to 220 people "They've got a wonderful collection of hard-to-find stuff," says Jim Beloff, a former Billboard Magazine editor who has written a book on the ukulele The islanders made their own version using koa wood, and gave it a new name, which means "jumping flea " Wasser, an avid guitarist, discovered the ukulele when a friend brought one on a 1990 road trip to Mardi Gras Others are stacked in their cases in the dining room (AP) â€â€? It's a long way from this blue-collar town to the warm sands of Waikiki "He's the guy who had the vision and the dream of the Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum," Abbotson says " â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: http://www In 1996, the group held its first annual "Ukulele Expo," a celebration of the instrument and its history Tiny Tim, the '60s ukulele legend with the falsetto voice, made one of his last public appearances at the first Expo, where he suffered a heart attack onstage ukulele The opening of a permanent museum seems "a long way off," Abbotson says Abbotson writes a newsletter for members, and maintains the Web site and online museum shop "I guess you could say now it's become an obsession "It's so easy," Abbotson says " The ukulele was featured in a Hawaiian exhibit at the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and its popularity exploded on the mainland over the next several decades Roy Smeck, a legendary ambassador of the ukulele, hosted a popular radio program in the 1920s, and TV host Arthur Godfrey ushered in the instrument's second golden age in the 1950s "It's unthreatening This year's Expo was held last weekend in Montclair, N org http://www Abbotson and Wasser are part of a consortium of ukulele nuts who have assembled one of the world's largest collections, including rare and historic "ukes" dating back to the dawn of the instrument I And you only need a couple of chords to be able to play A shipload of Madeiran settlers arrived in Hawaii in 1879, bringing along the braghuina, an instrument like a small guitar He said his lyrics, which tell a young female to watch out for boys now that's she's grown into an attractive young woman, could be interpreted with the woman representing a country, being warned to watch out for other nations K I was amazed he was down with it like that The Beatles were influenced by Ravi Shankar His first U O Panjabi played there a few years ago, when "Bach Ke" first hit the bhangra circuit "Now everybody's on it The popularity of the bhangra/hip-hop fusion sound almost amuses Panjabi, who can still clearly recall the resistance he met from South Asian crowds when he first started incorporating Western sounds into his music " â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Web: Panjabi MC: http://www The song, "Mundian To Bach Ke," which translates as "Beware of the Boys," crept out of the bhangra scene into European clubs "Combining hip-hop and bhangra sounds, people dissed it," he said The underlying beat is clearly bhangra, yet "it sounds like a hip-hop record," she said Panjabi, born Rajinder Rai, was amazed to find out a rapper of Jay-Z's status wanted to rhyme on his bhangra track "For the bhangra crowd in the U " Jay-Z managed to add some controversy with lines like, "We rebellious, we back home, Screamin' 'Leave Iraq alone,'" and "For all my soldiers in the field, I will wish you safe return, But only love kills war, When will they learn?" Panjabi didn't have a problem with that The resulting remix has made it onto American radio, moving bhangra from its mostly South Asian audience into the mainstream K sangament "To think that someone like Jay-Z is going to be bouncing on a bhangra beat, it's amazing, very groundbreaking More recently, the hit R&B song by Truth Hurts, "Addictive," used a Lata Mangeshkar movie track, and rapper Erick Sermon's infectious "React" had a Hindi song in the chorus The artists may not even know what the songs are saying, she pointed out Other producers might try to replicate his success, but he's not worried It's not the first music mix of Indian and Western Jun 26, 2:15 PM EST The throbbing bassline from the theme to the 1980s TV show "Knight Rider" had been sampled in several songs before Panjabi MC got ahold of it B "You can jump on the bandwagon," he said, "but you're never going to take out the leader " Not that he minds the popularity, of course Jay-Z Helps U But this is different, said Rekha Malhotra, a New York DJ who has helmed the monthly Basement Bhangra party at the club S com Basement Bhangra: http://www S " Apparently, the world agrees But the 27-year-old rapper and producer from Coventry, England was the first to mix "Knight Rider" with bhangra, the drum-heavy harvest music that originated out of Punjab, the same part of India his parents are from S com , we don't even know that anyone outside our community is down with it," he told The Associated Press during a trip to New York panjabi-mc But "Bach Ke" really straddles two worlds DJ Bring Bhangra to U Malhotra said "Addictive" and "react" are Western artists latching on to a catchy sample of music from Bollywood, India's behemoth film industry album, "Beware," drops July 1, and he was in the process of booking club dates around the United States over the next few months 's for the last six years "They didn't want to hear Western influences," he said, remembering how he would be stared at when he started rapping in public in the early 1990s That was where megastar Jay-Z heard it earlier this year and decided he wanted to drop some verses on it When he put the sounds together in 1998, "I knew it sounded right |
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