RobMacKillop
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Hi uke people,
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Rob MacKillop here. I've tabbed out ten of the best tunes for the Machete - a 19th-century uke-related instrument. The music for the machete is beautiful (waltzes, polkas, etc) but is hard to find, and then only in standard notation.
I did offer this to Mel Bay, but they rejected it on the grounds that the uke requires a different tuning. The fourth string should be a low G, and you have to tune the first string down from a to g. This gives a tuning (from bass to treble) of GCEG.
The book is download-only, for the price of a posh coffee:
https://sellfy.com/p/xuv5/
Here I play one of the pieces, Clara Polka, on a Mele Concert uke. It gives a good idea of the contents of the book:
[Not sure which sub forum to post this under, so please move it if needs be]
Rob MacKillop here. I've tabbed out ten of the best tunes for the Machete - a 19th-century uke-related instrument. The music for the machete is beautiful (waltzes, polkas, etc) but is hard to find, and then only in standard notation.
I did offer this to Mel Bay, but they rejected it on the grounds that the uke requires a different tuning. The fourth string should be a low G, and you have to tune the first string down from a to g. This gives a tuning (from bass to treble) of GCEG.
The book is download-only, for the price of a posh coffee:
https://sellfy.com/p/xuv5/
Here I play one of the pieces, Clara Polka, on a Mele Concert uke. It gives a good idea of the contents of the book:
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