I wanted to create this blog as a place where I can store and retrieve information for future reference. I chose the name Humble Uker Ramblings because I have started out strumming my father's 1950's painted Harmony ukulele. I think that the greatest appeal of the ukulele as "the people's instrument" is it's humble simplicity. My contact email is HumbleUker@gmail.com. I have also been working on a blog for the Baritone Ukulele called Humble Baritonics.
Haleakala Pentatonic Fantasy - The piece, the playing, & the Bruko ukulele come together to produce (to these ears)a Japanese Koto-like sound, & quite moving it is.
The three jigs translate very well to the ukulele. This doesn't always happen, & usually I believe in keeping tunes on the instruments they were written for, i.e. leave the dance tunes to say, the fiddle & harp, & the ragtime pieces to the piano, but in this case the results are splendid.
The Weiss scenic nature video is lovely. My own favorite nature video set to classical music - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams - is posted on Youtube as -
River Torridge - Fantasia On A Theme.
These ten minutes will sweep you away, a perfect way to end the day (after communing with the ukulele, of course).
Haleakala Pentatonic Fantasy - The piece, the playing, & the Bruko ukulele come together to produce (to these ears)a Japanese Koto-like sound, & quite moving it is.
ReplyDeleteThe three jigs translate very well to the ukulele.
This doesn't always happen, & usually I believe in keeping tunes on the instruments they were written for, i.e. leave the dance tunes to say, the fiddle & harp, & the ragtime pieces to the piano, but in this case the results are splendid.
The Weiss scenic nature video is lovely. My own favorite nature video set to classical music - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams - is posted on Youtube as -
River Torridge - Fantasia On A Theme.
These ten minutes will sweep you away, a perfect way to end the day (after communing with the ukulele, of course).
Thanks for the nice comments!
ReplyDeleteThanks for mensioning my videos here also
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