Description: Look for Your Dreams in Hawaii, Hawaiian Music, Hawaiian Music, music licensing, music clips and independent music
Keywords: Look for Your Dreams in Hawaii, music licensing, music clips, independent music, flash music loops, royalty free sound, music loops, television music, royalty free music downloads, production music library, royalty free music download, cheap royalty free music, business music, stock music loops, royalty-free stock music, film music, production music, license music, royalty-free song, stock music clips, download stock music, royalty free background music, royalty free sounds, royalty-free music, commercial music, corporate music, download music clips, stock music, flash music, website music, jeannie stock audio, best music loops, royalty free music harmonica, 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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