He also brought his ronroco, a 10-stringed South American equivalent to the ukulele, to the studio to play three songs.

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"I really believe he got a lot of his ideas from the ukulele because they work so well with the instrument songs like Something, " Shimabukuro says.

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He played stripped-down versions of songs from Go, singing in his mesmerizing falsetto and accompanying himself on three-stringed tenor ukulele, guitar and piano.

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