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  2. Annelies (Whitbourn) - Wikipedia

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    Annelies is a full-length choral work based on The Diary of Anne Frank. [1] Annelies is the full first name of Anne Frank, now commonly referred to by her abbreviated forename, Anne. The music is by British composer James Whitbourn and the libretto is compiled from the diary by Melanie Challenger.

  3. May Singhi Breen - Wikipedia

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    Building on the popularity of the instrument as promoted by radio and television personality Arthur Godfrey, Breen published the New Ukulele Method in 1950. [10] In 2000, May Singhi Breen was inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame along with Cliff Edwards and the founder of Kamaka Ukulele, Sam Kamaka. Her citation reads in part: "She convinced ...

  4. Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    The orchestra also often run Ukulele workshops for fellow ukulele players and school children in the afternoons before gigs, including with thousands of young players in a stadium in New Zealand. [ 71 ] [ 74 ] Prior to gigs the orchestra also gives out advance notice of an audience participation tune so that those that wish to participate can ...

  5. J. Chalmers Doane - Wikipedia

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    The best known student to come out of Doane's program is James Hill, who plays the ukulele throughout the world and worked with Doane to revise the ukulele teaching system. [6] Doane and Hill collaborated to create the Ukulele in the Classroom program in 2008. [7] [8] Doane was awarded an honorary doctor of fine arts from St. Mary's University ...

  6. Ukulele - Wikipedia

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    The baritone ukulele usually uses linear G 6 tuning: D 3 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4, the same as the highest four strings of a standard 6-string guitar. Bass ukuleles are tuned similarly to the bass guitar and double bass : E 1 –A 1 –D 2 –G 2 for U-Bass style instruments (sometimes called contrabass), or an octave higher, E 2 –A 2 –D 3 –G ...

  7. Ukelin - Wikipedia

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    Ukelin, distributed by Manufacturers' Advertising Co. - front. The ukelin is a stringed musical instrument made popular in the United States in the 1920s. It is a bowed psaltery with zither strings, and its name derives from the ukulele (which was first made in Portugal but was popularized in Hawaii) and the violin.

  8. Diary - Wikipedia

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    The word "journal" may be sometimes used for "diary," but generally a diary has (or intends to have) daily entries (from the Latin word for 'day'), whereas journal-writing can be less frequent. Although a diary may provide information for a memoir , autobiography or biography , it is generally written not with the intention of being published ...

  9. Banjo ukulele - Wikipedia

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    [3] The banjo ukulele neck typically has sixteen frets, and is the same scale length as a soprano or, less commonly, concert or tenor-sized ukulele. Banjo ukuleles may be open-backed, or may incorporate a resonator. Banjo ukulele heads were traditionally made of calf skin, but most modern instruments are fitted with synthetic heads. Some ...