Description: Look for Your Dreams in Hawaii, Hawaiian Music, Hawaiian Music, royalty free music, instrumental music and music loops
Keywords: Look for Your Dreams in Hawaii, royalty free music, instrumental music, music loops, royalty-free production music, commercial stock music, music for film, royalty free audio, music wav, royalty free music downloads, websites music, royalty free sounds, stock music clips, world music, company music, flash music, royalty-free stock music, music library, flash music loops, license music, cheap royalty free music, stock music downloads, business music, cheap production music, commercial music, music clips, corporate music, music for video, royalty free mp3, royalty free music download, oxford musiklibrary, film musique, music libraries reggae, Hawaii Ukulele instrumental classical soul pop rock expressive trade winds waves surf virtuosos slide guitars dreams music art Pacific cool original melodic The ukulele is commonly associated with music from Hawaii where the name roughly translates as "jumping flea", perhaps because of the movement of the player's fingers Legend attributes it to the nickname of the Englishman Edward William Purvis, one of King Kalakaua's officers, because of his small size, fidgety manner, and playing expertise According to Queen Lili?uokalani, the last Hawaiian monarch, the name means “the gift that came here, ” from the Hawaiian words uku gift or reward and lele to come
Developed in the 1880s, the ukulele is based on several small guitar-like instruments of Portuguese origin, the machete, the cavaquinho, the timple and the rajão, introduced to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese immigrants from Madeira and Cape Verde Three immigrants in particular, Madeiran cabinet makers Manuel Nunes, José do Espírito Santo, and Augusto Dias, are generally credited as the first ukulele makers This features their ukulele
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