Clara Polka for Machete-Ukulele
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Uploaded by RobMacKillop on Jan 22, 2012
The machete is how the ukulele was - and is - in Portugal. There is a beautiful repertoire for it, thanks to Manuel Morais for discovering it. I have a machete on order from Carlos Jorge Pereira Rodriguez in Madeira. It is even SMALLER than a ukulele. To get a similar tuning I had to lower the first string by a tone, and put a low octave fourth string on. Hope you like it. Lots more to come when I get my machete! Note the technique of playing many runs and sequences of thirds with the thumb...apparently a machete technique.
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Lovely texture. Well done Rob.
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Loved it Rob!! So how much smaller than a Soprano Uke is a Machete?
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You continue to amaze and astound me ... beautiful !
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Get thee behind me, MacKillop! Thou shalt not tempt me (again) with Beautiful Music! I have enough things around the house I can't play.
It does sound lovely, though. I'm looking forward to hearing the music you find in the new instrument.
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beautiful! Such a nice clear tone! Can't wait to hear other things on it...
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Excellent! You can see a clear connection to the earlier music of Sanz and others in the repeated passages ending in a strumming riff followed by a variation. I love it - but my fingers just can't move that fast...yet.
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??? i'm portuguese and this is a surprise
renatovcortereal 2 weeks ago
@renatovcortereal
I hope a pleasant surprise? There are many pieces for the Portuguese machete from the 19th and early 20th century. I think they would sound beautiful on your Portuguese guitar!
RobMacKillop 2 weeks ago