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Ukulele in Japan - Ukulele Beatles

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virani posted on Mon, Dec 6, 2004 9:46 AM

Japan always been full of ukulele player and lover. There is a lot of player there, and lots of good albums to get.
There's even a magazine dedicated to the 4 strings instrument : rolling coconut. Unfortunatly, there is no translation of it...
http://www.rollingcoconuts.com/
The star there is Jake Shimabukuro, who even made a dvd to help you to play the uke.

Anyway, I just got 2 compilation of Beatles songs played by (mostly) japanese on the uke. Those are really great, but I only found those on the japanese Amazon. Songs by Petty Booka, Herb Ohta jr, Iwao...

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