We joined our year 3 and 4 musicians today in the music room with Margaret of Margaret’s Music for a Ukulele session.
While the ukulele is a uniquely Hawaiian instrument, its roots are in the Portuguese braguinha or machete de braga. The braguinha is a stringed instrument smaller than a guitar whose tuning is very similar to the first four strings of a guitar.
The first ukulele was made in 1879. The word ukulele translates to “jumping flea,” a phrase that Hawaiians said described the motion of a ukulele player’s hands when playing.
The children have only been playing the Ukulele for a couple of weeks this term and it is clear that we already have some musical talent in the making.
