Description: Look for Your Dreams in Hawaii, Hawaiian Music, Hawaiian Music, music clips, music for tv and flash music
Keywords: Look for Your Dreams in Hawaii, music clips, music for tv, flash music, royalty free music download, license music, royalty-free song, royalty-free songs, instrumental music, download stock music, royalty free music downloads, world music, stock music library, stock music clips, royalty free mp3, download music, download music clips, background music, production music library, royalty free music library, television music, royalty free sounds, music loops, royalty-free stock music, stock music, stock music sound effects, royalty free sound, royalty free background music, stock music tracks, cheap royalty free music, music for haunted houses, copyright royalty free music, film songs, 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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