On the homepage of Jupiter Creec Music you can find a lot of information about the building of electric mandolins and ukuleles. A virtual workshop tour shows, how electric mandolins and other instruments are built. Jupiter Creek does also build stomp boxes, wooden boxes with a microphone built in, which can be used to make [...]
This year on August 21, 1969 Hawaii became the 50th state of the USA. The typical instrument of Hawaii is the tiny ukulele, and one of the musicians, who really know how to play the ukulele is Jake Shimabukuro. The following video shows how Jake Shimabukuro plays one of his most successful pieces, the Beatles [...]
Luperce Miranda is one of the most important composer of choros for the bandolim, the brazilian mandolin. Miranda was born in 1904 and died in 1977, he has composed more than 500 choros. You can find some biographical notes about Miranda in the Choro Blog: Luperce Miranda – King of the Mandolin Many of Mirandas [...]
CD Works for Mandolin and Piano with Richard Walz, Mandolin, and Viviana Sofronitzki, Piano I have just discovered the following videos with recordings by Richard Walz. These are recordings from a CD Works for Mandolin and Piano with Richard Walz, Mandolin, and Viviana Sofronitzki, Piano, recorded in 1998. This CD is probably no more available, [...]