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For one, Mr. Buffett is a ukulele enthusiast but doesn't appear to play guitar.
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"On a ukulele, you have to work quite hard to make it sound like music, " he said.
There were lessons at the respected Roy Sakuma Ukulele Studio, but in time he became his own teacher.
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He played the digit-ditty on a variety of fashionably humble instruments, from accordion and ukulele to toy glockenspiel.
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The late musician, whose primary instrument was guitar, also played ukulele and would take one along wherever he went.
Mansfield took up the ukulele in 2007, after his cancer made it too difficult for him to play the violin.
He also brought his ronroco, a 10-stringed South American equivalent to the ukulele, to the studio to play three songs.
Also, Sting has designed some kind of overgrown ukulele that's friendly to the rainforest because it doesn't use much wood.
The proud father of an eight-month-old son, he lets schoolchildren know that the ukulele has helped keep him drug-free for life.
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Partly that could have been because in a television spot for Farmers Insurance Hawaii, Mr. Shimabukuro's ukulele was seen bursting into flame.
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Shimabukuro grew up playing traditional Hawaiian music on the ukulele, and has stuck with the instrument for 25 of his 29 years.
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The duo strummed through the song, Bon Jovi on guitar and Buffett on ukulele, trading verses as the delighted crowd looked on.
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And next I heard there was a ukulele club meeting in Santa Cruz, an hour from my house, with hundreds of people attending.
He is playing in bigger and bigger concert venues and get this the Dan Zanes limited edition ukulele has sold out!
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.
It's where these monthly Santa Cruz Ukulele Club meetings are held.
At the drop of a jaunty straw fedora, Mr. Shimabukuro will sermonize that the world would be a better place if more people played the ukulele.
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Ms. BEV WESLY (Ukulele quartet member): I'm excited because I just ordered a banjo uke from eBay and it's just so exciting and here it is.
"I feel people get bored of playing the ukulele because they hear other things and they want to be able to play other things, " he says.
"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.
The 2012 festival, the first year it was held, featured such acts as mask-wearing electro artist SBTRKT from London, and Tune-Yards, hailing from New England, who uses instruments as diverse as the ukulele and a dictaphone.
Band members Kevin May (piano, lead vocals) and Mick Lynch (acoustic guitar, ukulele, stomp-board and vocals) strip away the electronic elements in this Mountain Stage performance, spotlighting their crisp, brotherly-like harmony and memorable melodies.
Every island had its own character and superlatives, but each was linked by unfailing friendliness, the gentle lilt of the Hawaiian ukulele, a tropical climate that generally steadied between 80F and 88F, and a never-ending series of achingly beautiful sunsets.
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