AtDDtA1: An Enthusiastic Ukuleleist

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: <mhayes at asiaaccess.net.th>
>
>I thought there was a Ukelele in M&D, but the only thing I can remember
>is the 'Fijian Guitar' in the South Africa section (which I don't
>have the page number with me). It's used to serenade someone.

>From M&D pp. 80-81:

A young Gallant arrives bearing a diminutive three-string'd Lute, and 
dropping to one Knee before Jet,-- tho' she has delegated the sighing to her 
sisters,-- sings his own original Pæan to Cape Womanhood,--

[Awful serenade follows]

"And self-Accompanied, Wim!-- what *is* that tiny Object in your Lap that 
you've been whanging your Triads upon, there, and so rhythmically, too?"

"Found this down at that Market near the Gallows,-- 'tis a Fiji Islander's 
Guitar, first introduc'd there two hundred years ago by Portuguese Jesuits, 
according to the Malay that sold me it."

"I see the Jesuit part clearly enough," Greet remarks.

"So long as you don't grasp it," murmurs Els.

- although only three-string'd, this definitely seems to be a cousin of the 
ukulele. The quote of course confirms the close ties between masturbation 
and playing the ukulele - speaking of which, see this Wikipedia entry on the 
ukulele, with a couple of nice pictures....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukulele

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