The Kamiki ukulele method. Softcover. No date. Copyright 1920. 64p. Good condition.

Pages 1-26 include: a picture showing correct position for holding the ukulele ; transposing chart ; rudiments of music ; how to tune, string and hold the ukulele ; the strokes and roll strokes with exercises ; diagrams showing various chords and modulations. Pages 27-63 contain songs and accompaniments which are intended primarily for those who read music, arranged to be of equal value to those who play the ukulele entirely by ear. Page 64 shows how to tune the taropatch plus principal scale plus how to tune and string the tiple plus principal scale.

Songs include: My bonnie, Aloha-oe, Sweet Lei Lehua, My old Kentucky home, Dixie's land, Santa Lucia.

Music only: Ukulele solo: Laughing waters, Pizzicato waltz, Hanapepe waltz, One, two, three, four, Holoholo kaa, Marching through Georgia, Indian dance, Kamiki rag. Ukulele duet: Hawaiian waltz. Ukulele and guitar duet: Dance of the fairies.



Ukulele : tiple, uke-i-tar, guitar-uke, taropatch and ukulele banjo. E-Z method series.

Softcover. No date. Copyright 1924. 32p. In good condition though leaf with pages 25-26 has been torn and neatly sellotaped together again.

While this method is intended primarily for the ukulele, it will also be found of equal value for all other instruments using ukulele fingering. The other instruments listed above are played the same as the ukulele; their only difference is in the tuning, which is explained on the last pages of the book. Songs include: Oh! Susannah, Little brown jug, Jingle bells, Auld Lang Syne, For he's a jolly good fellow.