The decision to name a state instrument in Hawaii is proving more difficult than some lawmakers expected. At first, it seemed a proposal to give the title to the ukulele it was going to be an easy ...

HONOLULU — The first and largest ukulele festival in the world is celebrating its 44th year. Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro will be one of the featured artists at this weekend’s Ukulele Festival ...

Which ukulele tuner is best? The ukulele is eminently portable and fun to play. As a result, the instrument has maintained its popularity, with around 1.5 million units sold each year in the U.S.

HONOLULU (KHON2) – There are so many things that make Hawaii so unique from our food, musubi of course, saimin, our culture and history, but also our music. Ukulele is such an iconic symbol of ...

The stringed instruments that define so much Hawaiian music all came from somewhere else — and not very long ago. In the case of the ukulele, that was from Portugal's Madeira Islands. Hawaii's King ...

This is a special new year for Oahu’s Kamaka family, as they celebrate a century of making ukuleles, the string instrument so closely linked to Hawaii. Sam Kamaka founded the company in his Honolulu ...

Its frisky four strings are the sound of Elvis’s “Blue Hawaii,” of Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips and lately, beyond all reason, of a popular “Bohemian Rhapsody” cover. Above all, the humble ...