ATDTDA (1): ukelele

[Tim Strzechowski]

"I greatly admire the music of the region," said Miles, "the ukelele in particular" (p. 27).

The ukulele (ʻukulele in Hawaiian and standard Hawaiian English; pronounced /ʔukulele/, or the Anglicised /ˌjukəˈleɪli/), or uke, is a fretted string instrument which is, in its construction, essentially a smaller, four-stringed version of the guitar. In the early 20th century, the instrument's name was often rendered as ukelele, a spelling still used in Great Britain.
[...]
The ukulele comes in four sizes from smallest to largest:

soprano (the original size)

concert

tenor (created in the 1920s)

baritone (created in the late 1940s). 
A soprano uke has a 13" (33 cm) scale length and is usually about 21" (53 cm) total length.
A concert uke has a 15" (38 cm) scale length and is usually about 23" (58 cm) total length.
A tenor uke has a 17" (43 cm) scale length and is usually about 26" (66 cm) total length.
A baritone uke has a 19" (48 cm) scale length and is usually about 30" (76 cm) total length.
[...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukulele
http://www.geocities.com/~ukulele/history.html
http://nfo.net/usa/ukehist.html
http://www.ukuleleworld.com/
http://www.ukulele.ne.jp/img/top.jpg

The Ukulele Orchestra is a group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players, who use instruments bought with loose change, and who believe that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele. [...]
http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com/main/home.aspx

I know Dave posted stuff on ukelelists earlier this week ... forgive any repetitions.
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