Ukuleles by Kawika: A Thoughtful Ukulele Website

The Ukuleles by Kawika website is a place for anyone who loves the ukulele. You'll find ukulele and guitar color photos of the instruments we make; sound files of all sizes of our ukuleles; free listing of old ukulele song books; free lutherie calculation spreadsheets; a discussion of instrument tunings and acoustics; free shoptips for ukulele and guitar construction; sources of supplies and useful links for buying used instruments; a beginning guide to Hawaiian ukulele identification with hundreds of useful measurements; guest artists playing our ukuleles and guitars; an analysis of the ukulele fretboard with chord charts for different keys; photos and a naturalist's description of koa wood; tips and sources of information from guest luthiers and a chance for input from you the reader. In the near future will be a wood physical properties database, methods for making useful wood properties measurements, the application of these measurements to lutherie and a section on ukulele strumming techniques)

• Dean Markley

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• Douglas fir

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• Grover

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• Hawaii

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• Hilo

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• Hurd

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• Kawika

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• Martin

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• Pro-Tec

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• air resonance

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• baritone

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• cedar

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• chords

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• concert

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• database

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• ebony

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• freeware

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• fret spacing

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• fretboard

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• graphite carbon epoxy

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• hand-made

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• instruction manuals

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• instrument

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• koa wood

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• lacquer

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• nitrocellulose

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• paua

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• radius arches

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• redwood

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• relative humidity

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• song books

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• spreadsheet

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• string tensions

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• strings

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• tenor

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• uke

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• ukelele

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• ukes

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• ukulele

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• ukulele links

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• ukuleles

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• used instrument links

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• vinyl sealer

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• voicing

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• zero fret