[VIHUELA] Re: machete

[EUGENE BRAIG IV]

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   Date: Saturday, May 3, 2008 5:50 am
   Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: machete
   To: Vihuela <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
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   > there's a small plucky-thing in puerto rico called a "machete"
   > but i'd
   > always thought the "ukulele" ("jumping flea," in hawaiian) was a
   > new
   > world name given to the "braghina" and "rajao" from
   > portugal.

   Credit is usually given to the machete of Madeira.  The migration of
   the instrument, being relatively recent, is pretty well documented.
   See, e.g.:

   Tranquada, Jim. 2003. Fierce mustaches: how the ukulele came to Hawaii.
   The Ukulele Occasional, 2:12-18.

   Eugene --


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