Soprano Ukule Analysis

Epiphone Wildkat has a Mahogany body with a Maple top and a glued-in Maple neck. The fingerboard is certainly made of none other than Rosewood. On the other hand, Epiphone 339 comes with a laminated Maple body with a solid center block and a glued-in Mahogany neck. While solid woods are great for acoustic guitars, laminated woods are usually better for electric models, giving the much-needed ruggedness and durability as well as a neutral platform that allows the electronics to perform.

Some well known keyboard players include Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy. A popular keyboard that is still used today is the organ. The organ ranges in size from a small closet to an entire church. An organ has from two to eight manuals that can have completely different sounds. Air is pushed through pipes to make the many sounds that can be played on a pipe organ. (Raeburn 11) he most known keyboard, the piano, was improved in this era from the harpsichord. The piano has eighty-eight keys with seven octaves plus a few keys. According to “Musical”, sound is made by hammers that strike the strings to vibrate them (“Musical”). The harpsichord was the precursor to the piano. Instead of hitting the strings, the harpsichord would pluck them to make a more metallic sound. The spinet was a small upright piano that is similar to the harpsichord. Another instrument is the virginal. Like the spinet, it is also similar to the harpsichord (“Elizabethan“). Keyboards were and still are the most known class of instrument. This era gave us variations and new keyboards to use and

The common grade scale for instrument wood is A, AA, AAA, AAAA. A is the lowest grade, but is viewed as acceptable for the novice. The highest quality is graded AAAA and is fine grain wood with no knots. Top wood for instruments varies according to the instrument. Guitars usually have cedar top wood where mandolins usually have spruce. Top thickness of wood instruments usually ranges from 0.095 inches to 0.130 inches. The type of wood and thickness of the top wood will each be affected differently by environmental changes, especially that of temperature

2) The Melody Shop– who sell a variety of musical instruments and sheet music from their shop and over the internet.

Bombo – This is a large drum with the skin made from llamas and the body is made from metal. The sticks have a wooden tip.

The rattles are made from very bright and vibrant colors. The rattle is decorated with different colored beads. The process takes multiple days because the beads are tiny and are slowly stitched by hand one at a time. This type of stitching is called peyote stitching. The multiple colored beads please the spirits and are also “beautiful to the human eye when under the effect of the peyote” (Native American Church Style Gourd Rattles). The peyote gourd rattles are made of wood. Half the portion of the gourd is used for the rattle. There is a stick that goes through the rattle and that is covered in buckskin and the colorful beads. The bottom of the stick has tassels hanging from it. The top of the stick has either horse hair or sometimes parrot

The only stringed instrument is the high pitched cavaquinho (ukulele). Together these instruments fuse to create polyrhythyms that align and cross, reinforce and contrast with each other in a lively style less formal than maxixe or marcha. Couples often dance to samba in physically close, tight movements similar to the lundu and lambada, employing voluptuous movements, gyrating hips, and heel and leg movements often said to imitate the act of lovemaking.

The Suona which are used in China are build with a conical wooden body. The instrument is made in several different sizes

Sting instruments are musical instruments that are made from wood and have strings. They make their sound when their strings vibrate. This causes the body of the instrument as well as the air inside to vibrate too. The strings are either plucked with the hand or a bow is drawn across the strings. In an orchestra the four string instruments are the violin, the viola, the cello and the bass.

This is Linsey Pollack and he is an Australian musician, instrument maker, composer, and musical director. In this video, he is playing a baseball bat that he turned into a clarinet. He uses a lot of unexpected materials to create his instruments. For example, he has made things like carrot clarinets, rubber glove bagpipes and he has even made instruments made from bicycles.

Theodor Rombouts made Lute Player in 1620. He was active in Antwerp and Italy, while this painting was made in Southern Netherlands of Europe. It is oil on canvas and 111.1 centimeters long and 99.7 centimeters wide. It is currently exhibited in John G. Johnson Collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art, which accession number is Cat. 679. The lute player and his lute are placed at the center of the canvas. At the bottom, there is a table covered with a red carpet that is decorated with some oriental patterns. On his table, there are books, pipe, knife, and tankard distrusted from the middle to the right side. Overall, Theodor chooses a close-up angle of a sitting lute player with detailed presentations in this painting.

The machete itself is a descendent of the early European and Middle Eastern plucked stringed instruments (such as the lute) and is a member of the guitar family, The machete was brought into Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants. This small guitar-like instrument was given its new traditional name in the Hawaiian language which we know today as 'ukulele '. The word ukulele literally means "jumping flea". It is believed that the the instrument earned its name from how quickly the musician 's fingers moved up and down the fingerboard.

The late 18th century involved a lot of modifications to earlier models of horns. Beginning with the bullhorn and into the development of the bugle in 1810, instrument materials shifted from horn to wood, to eventually copper, silver, and brass. “By the time mankind learned to work and alloy such soft metals as copper, zinc, lead, tin, gold, and

It grew in reputation for being the best instrument for new players due to the relatively low cost, and small portable size. Thousands of them were made through the twenties, becoming a major icon of the Jazz age. “The ukulele slowly declined in popularity through the 1930's, momentarily being revived in the late-1940's through to the 1950's with some American servicemen bringing the instrument home with them from Hawaii after World War Two. The popularity of pop-rock music caused the ukulele to fade into the background in the 1960's, although it still existed in mainstream consciousness with the likes of The Arthur Godfrey Show and Tiny Tim's 1968 hit Tiptoe through the Tulips. The insanely popular band 'The Beatles' were very fond of the ukulele, however rarely played the instrument and despite their endorsement the little ukulele lay very quietly in its case from the 1970's until its revival in the 1990's”(History of the ukulele, 2017). The internet ha plays a huge role in this instrument's sudden increase in popularity by providing tutorials and places to obtain them and a connection between ukulele players. It once again enjoys a period of high use. The jumping flea, is being celebrated for its multiple uses, portable size, and ease of learning. There is now a rush of beginner users starting daily, in the hundreds. The instrument is still tied to Hawaiian culture and music, due to the creation of different types of ukulele the instrument is seen in many different musical settings. The love for the jumping flea has stayed consistently for the past twenty years, steadily increasing. With large numbers of performers becoming very popular for their instrumental skills. “The 1990's ukulele revival has also led to the instrument being used increasingly in popular (pop) music performances and recordings, as well as

He put his own twist on his cover by combining “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” with Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”. His rendition of this song used only an ukulele, a string instrument often associated with Hawaiian music. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole was a Hawaiian and Reggae singer which would help to explain his use of an ukulele. An interesting fact about his version of “Over the Rainbow” comes from the comment of Milan Bertosa, owner of a Honolulu, Hawaii recording studio.