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- Thumb Through That for high G ukulele April 11, 2025
- Untitled Waltz for high G ukulele April 10, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday 2025 No Theme April 10, 2025
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- 3 Chord Thursday Swimming & Water April 10, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday Seventies April 10, 2025
- Thrice Blinded by Mice for high G ukulele April 9, 2025
- Sortie on Satie April 9, 2025
- Sense the Sicilienne for high G ukulele April 9, 2025
- Err on the G String April 9, 2025
- Melody in the Mosaic April 9, 2025
- Rein in the Rain for high G ukulele April 4, 2025
- Waltz Down the C Again for high G ukulele April 4, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday Sixties April 4, 2025
- 3 Chord Thursday 2025 Spanish April 4, 2025
- 123 Ready Set Go for high G ukulele April 1, 2025
- B-A-C-H in a Waltz for high G ukulele March 31, 2025
- Waltz for Chief Noda for high G ukulele March 30, 2025
- Unfinished Waltz by Anne Ku March 28, 2025
- Waltz Down the C for high G ukulele March 26, 2025
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REVIEW: Discovering Fingerstyle Ukulele Songbook by Colin Tribe
Colin Tribe’s new book offers new possibilities for ukulele players who aspire to fingerpick their way through thirty of the most popular songs of all time. These chord melody arrangements show a variety of ways the high G ukulele can be used for instrumental solo or duet (such as chord accompaniment and melodic fingerpicking) . […]
REVIEW: Piano Animals (duet) by Heleen Verleur
This 31-page book of four hand piano music is sheer FUN with a capital F. The composer Heleen Verleur knows just what pianists love playing: music that is easy to read, sounds hard to play, but is so much fun that you don’t want to stop until it ends.
REVIEW: Ukulele Picking Tunes Classical Gems by Paul Mansell
This 40-page book is the latest contribution to the ukulele repertoire by the UK-based ukulele and guitar composer Paul Mansell. Guitarists who play the ukulele are few and far between, for many adult learners pick up the ukulele without knowing the guitar. Yet it takes a guitarist who understands the possibilities of the re-entrant tuned […]
REVIEW: Modern Pieces for Ukulele by Paul Mansell
Review of first three pieces from the new book Modern Pieces for Ukulele by Paul Mansell
Group piano class in Zoom
Introducing my group piano class online: Group Piano Class in Zoom. The first series of seven weekly one-hour class started in June 2021. The second (continuation of the first) started in October 2021 at alternating weeks, until end of December (seven sessions). The third series of 16 consecutive weeks started at the beginning of 2022. […]
Tag Archives: Utrecht
Raison d’etre
Raison d’etre thought piece by Anne Ku about life’s purpose and calling Continue reading
Nontraditional students and their struggles: the pursuit of degrees
In the UK, older students are called “mature students.” In the US, anyone over 25 studying for their first degree falls into the category of “nontraditional students”. In the Netherlands, it is uncommon to see a mature, nontraditional student at … Continue reading
Minimalist, frugal living, and the path to zero waste management
The one-way airmile ticket to Amsterdam in mid-June led me to the Dutch lock-keeper’s house in Utrecht, a place I had called home for a decade. Void of furniture and furnishings, it felt small. In fact, everything looked smaller than … Continue reading
All things Dutch and wonderful
When I first visited a local supermarket in the Netherlands, I complained that the only soy sauce was the wrong kind. The bottle was too small, and the soya sauce was Indonesian. I honestly thought I would starve.
Moving out, moving over, and moving on
During the pressure-cooker months of May and June, I often wanted to wave a magic wand and make everything disappear. My tendency to collect, accept what others give me, organize, make good, and keep meant that I didn’t like throwing … Continue reading
Like-minded souls and their passion to collect sheet music
“If Bart were still here, he would never let me go through his sheet music and take what I want,” I said to his widow after spending hours looking through the densely packed shelves downstairs and upstairs.
A rolling stone gathers no moss but eventually will meet others
I can count the number of friends who visited me during my five-and-a-half years on Maui. The first to visit was a couple who flew from California and stayed for a long weekend in my first apartment while attending a … Continue reading
The monument house: piano room
I didn’t get to say goodbye to my Steinway A, for I didn’t know when I would return to see it.
Planning travel: Maui to Boston, Utrecht to London
Nearly six years after flying to Maui and getting a job there, I booked a one-way ticket to Boston and started planning my exit from paradise.