aiersi banjo brief
2012 February 25 by admin
Nowadays, aiersi can provide high grade banjos in the market. all selected hardware,finished by experienced makers. our banjos finished by same factory who provide OEM/ODM for big brand such as GEWA,TENNESS…. So there has high quality standard indeed.
Here we took some photos about banjos on production :
aiersi new style resonator ukulele
2011 November 30 by admin
aiersi just develop new style wood resonator ukulele model, different materials , with cone -plated,
Ukulele History
2011 November 20 by admin
[edit] Hawaii
Ukuleles are commonly associated with music from Hawaii where the name roughly translates as “jumping flea”,[4] perhaps due to the action of one’s fingers playing the ukulele resembling a “jumping flea”. According to Queen Lili’uokalani, the last Hawaiian monarch, the name means “the gift that came here”, from the Hawaiian words uku (gift or reward) and lele (to come). Developed in the 1880s, the ukulele is based on two small guitar-like instruments of Portuguese origin, the cavaquinho and the rajao, introduced to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese immigrants from Madeira and Cape Verde.[5] Three immigrants in particular, Madeiran cabinet makers Manuel Nunes, José do Espírito Santo, and Augusto Dias, are generally credited as the first ukulele makers.[6] Two weeks after they landed aboard the Ravenscrag in late August 1879, the Hawaiian Gazette reported that “Madeira Islanders recently arrived here, have been delighting the people with nightly street concerts.”[7]
One of the most important factors in establishing the ukulele in Hawaiian music and culture was the ardent support and promotion of the instrument by King David Kalakaua. A patron of the arts, he incorporated it into performances at royal gatherings.[8]
[edit] U.S. mainland
[edit] Pre–World War II
Cover of a 1928 instructional book for the ukulele by Roy Smeck, the “Wizard of the Strings”
The ukulele was popularized for a stateside audience during the Panama Pacific International Exposition, held from spring to fall of 1915 in San Francisco.[9] The Hawaiian Pavilion featured a guitar and ukulele ensemble, George E. K. Awai and his Royal Hawaiian Quartet,[10] along with ukulele maker and player Jonah Kumalae.[11] The popularity of the ensemble with visitors launched a fad for Hawaiian-themed songs among Tin Pan Alley songwriters.[12] The ensemble also introduced both the lap steel guitar and the ukulele into U.S. mainland popular music,[13] where it was taken up by vaudeville performers such as Roy Smeck and Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards. On April 15, 1923 at the Rivoli Theater in New York City, Smeck appeared, playing the ukulele, in Stringed Harmony, a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on film process. On August 6, 1926, Smeck appeared playing the ukulele in a short film His Pastimes, made in the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process, shown with the feature film Don Juan starring John Barrymore.[14]
Opening title for the short Vitaphone film His Pastimes (1926)
The ukulele soon became an icon of the Jazz Age.[15] Highly portable and relatively inexpensive, it also proved popular with amateur players throughout the 1920s, as is evidenced by the introduction of uke chord tablature into the published sheet music for popular songs of the time,[15] a role that would eventually be supplanted by the guitar in the early years of rock and roll.[16] A number of mainland-based instrument manufacturers, among them Regal, Harmony, and Martin, added ukulele, banjolele, and tiple lines to their production to take advantage of the demand.
[edit] Post–World War II
a modern red ukulele
From the late 1940s to the late 1960s, plastics manufacturer Mario Maccaferri turned out about 9 million inexpensive ukuleles.[17] The ukulele continued to be popular, appearing on many jazz songs throughout the 50s, 60s, and 70s.[18] Much of the instrument’s popularity was cultivated via The Arthur Godfrey Show on television.[19] Singer-musician Tiny Tim became closely associated with the instrument after playing it on his 1968 hit “Tiptoe Through the Tulips“.
[edit] Post-1990 Revival
After the 1960s, the ukulele declined in popularity until the late 1990s, when interest in the instrument reappeared.[20] During the 1990s, new manufacturers began producing ukuleles and a new generation of musicians took up the instrument.
Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole helped popularise the instrument, in particular due to his 1993 ukulele medley of “Over the Rainbow” and “What a Wonderful World“, used in several films, television programs, and commercials. The song reached #12 on Billboard’s Hot Digital Tracks chart the week of January 31, 2004 (for the survey week ending January 18, 2004).
[edit] World
- Japan: The ukulele came to Japan in 1929 after Hawaiian-born Yukihiko Haida returned to the country upon his father’s death and introduced the instrument. Haida and his brother Katsuhiko formed the Moana Glee Club, enjoying rapid success in an environment of growing enthusiasm for Western popular music, particularly Hawaiian music and jazz. During World War II, authorities banned most Western music, but fans and players kept it alive in secret, and it resumed popularity after the war. In 1959, Haida founded the Nihon Ukulele Association. Today, Japan is considered a second home for Hawaiian musicians and ukulele virtuosos.[21]
- Canada: In the 1960s, educator J. Chalmers Doane dramatically changed school music programmes across Canada, using the ukulele as an inexpensive and practical teaching instrument to foster musical literacy in the classroom.[22] There were 50,000 schoolchildren and adults learning ukulele through the Doane program at its peak.[23]
- UK: The singer and comedian George Formby was perhaps the most famous ukulele player in the UK, though he often played a banjolele, a hybrid instrument consisting of an extended ukulele neck with a banjo resonator body. There has been a recent upsurge in demand for the instrument, due to its relative simplicity and portability.[24]
[edit] Types and tunings
Soprano pineapple ukulele, baritone ukulele and taropatch baritone ukulele.
Ukuleles in a music store.
[edit] Construction
Ukuleles are generally made of wood, although variants have been made composed partially or entirely of plastic. Cheaper ukuleles are generally made from ply or laminate woods, in some cases with a soundboard of an acoustically superior wood such as spruce. Other more expensive ukuleles are made of solid hardwoods such as mahogany (Swietenia spp.). Some of the most expensive ukuleles, which may cost thousands of dollars, are made from koa (Acacia koa), a Hawaiian wood.
Typically ukuleles have a figure-eight body shape similar to that of a small acoustic guitar. They are also often seen in non-standard shapes, such as cutaway shape and an oval, usually called a “pineapple” ukulele, invented by the Kamaka Ukulele company, or a boat-paddle shape, and occasionally a square shape, often made out of an old wooden cigar box.
These instruments may have just four strings; or some strings may be paired in courses, giving the instrument a total of six or eight strings.
Instruments with 6 or 8 strings in 4 courses are usually called taropatch ukuleles, and used to be common in a concert size, but now the tenor size is more common for 8-string taropatch ukuleles. The 6 string, 4 course version, has 2 single and 2 double courses, and is sometimes called a Lili’u, although this name is also applied to the 8-string version, nowadays. [25]
[edit] Sizes
Four sizes of ukuleles are common: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone. There are also less common sopranino, with a nut to bridge of under 13 inches, which is seeing more popularity and bass ukuleles at the extreme ends of the size spectrum.
The soprano, often called “standard” in Hawaii, is the smallest, and the original size ukulele. The concert size was developed in the 1920s as an enhanced soprano, slightly larger and louder with a deeper tone. Shortly thereafter, the tenor was created, having more volume and deeper bass tone. The largest common size is the baritone, created in the 1940s.
| Type | Scale length[26] | Total length | Tuning[27] |
|---|---|---|---|
| soprano or standard | 13″ (33 cm) | 21″ (53 cm) | A4-D4-F#4-B4 or G4-C4-E4-A4 |
| concert | 15″ (38 cm) | 23″ (58 cm) | G4-C4-E4-A4, or G3-C4-E4-A4 |
| tenor | 17″ (43 cm) | 26″ (66 cm) | G3-C4-E4-A4, G4-C4-E4-A4 , or D4-G3-B3-E4 |
| baritone | 19″ (48 cm) | 30″ (76 cm) | D3-G3-B3-E4 |
[edit] Tuning
Traditional standard tuning for the soprano ukulele was D6-tuning: A4 D4 F#4 B4, but today many people favor the C6 tuning instead: G4 C4 E4 A4. The standard tuning for concert, and tenor ukuleles is C-tuning, G4 C4 E4 A4. The g string is tuned an octave higher than might be expected. This is known as reentrant tuning. Some prefer “Low G” tuning on the tenor, with the G in sequence an octave lower. The baritone is usually tuned to D3 G3 B3 E4 (low to high), which is the same as the highest four strings of the standard 6-string guitar.
Another common tuning for concerts is D-tuning, D4 F#4 B4, one step higher than the G4 C4 E4 A4 tuning. D tuning is said by some to bring out a sweeter tone in some ukuleles, generally smaller ones. This tuning was commonly used during the Hawaiian music boom of the early 20th century, and is often seen in sheet music from this period. D tuning with a low 4th, A3 D4 F#4 A4 is sometimes called “Canadian tuning” after its use in the Canadian school system, mostly on concert or tenor ukes.
Hawaiian ukuleles may also be tuned to open tunings, similar to the Hawaiian slack key style.[28]
Related File : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukulele
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Variety aiersi ukulele details/Photo
2011 November 19 by admin
Aiersi can make 21″ soprano,23″ concert,25″tenor ukuleles, including mahogany ukulele,bamboo ukulele,ebony ukulele, koa ukulele,pineapple ukulele, Cutway ukulele,6-string ukulele, electrical ukulele ! also,we can provide OEM/ODM for all models. 100% handmade, factory price, so our model is very popular in the market.
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aiersi weissenborn Guitar details/Photos
2011 November 19 by admin
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Related files about hawaiian guitar
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_slide_guitar
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www.hsga.org/
China smallman guitar detail/photo–aiersi factory
2011 November 19 by admin
Nowadays, Aiersi smallman guitar is very popular in professional guitar market . especially aiersi smalman guitar make some changes for new design such as single port/Double Port. Elevated fretboard. 100% handmade, super thin solid top, solid side, double-ply round back, smallman style rosette. most of our customers confirm our quality/sound and sell as good price too.
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