ʻukulele

All of the 'ukuleles and braguinhas/cavaquinhos examined in this paper use nylon or gut strings.

In addition, there will be a small instrumental group, perhaps composed of four ʻukulele.

Overseas manufacturers saw a lucrative opportunity as well; as early as 1918, Japanese firms reportedly were making ʻukuleles.[…]Martin’s high-end strategy stood in dramatic contrast to the rest of the mainland market, where the ʻukulele’s astonishing popularity and what some critics attacked as wartime profiteers willing to produce and sell instruments “false in tone, flimsy in construction, and made in a cheap, shoddy way” sent prices for instruments steadily downward: from $6 in 1914 to $3.50 in 1915 to a sales price of $1.95 in 1917.

As with my previous ʻukulele books for Mel Bay, the songs are arranged in ascending order of difficulty. If you start at the beginning and work your way to the back you will gain a good understanding of how to play slack key style ʻukulele.[…]All of the music is written in standard notation and tablature for ʻukulele.