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Your heart is hurting. So the last thing you need is to listen to sad songs of love lost, played on a plaintive little ukulele by none other than Eddie Vedder. Has he no mercy? Still, you take in ...

For such an itsy-bitsy instrument, the ukulele is having a super-sized impact on popular music. Again. "It's small, it's cute, it's portable, it's easy to play ... for me, it just clicked," says Grace ...

Anyone can play a ukulele. It has only four strings, and you can learn the three chords to accompany a song in half an hour or less. Even if you just play the open strings — my-dog-has-fleas — you're ...

The little ukulele player in braces and sneakers hunched over his instrument and focused on his sheet music. Luke Hernke's left fingers carefully but swiftly pressed each of the four strings. He ...

Music self-played is happiness self-made." These words scribbled on a ukulele from the 1930s sum up the potency of the little instrument that could. Derided as a Lilliputian joke in the post-War era, ...