You may laugh off the ukulele as a toy or joke instrument, and admittedly, their starting price tag and the quality that usually comes with such a price tag doesn’t help much to get a differe… ...

Jeann Christoffersen gripped her ukulele and waited for the chord she knew. Through wire-rimmed glasses, she studied her music sheets as the other uke players gathered around the table jammed to ...

Twenty-nine amateur ukulele players – more than 100 can turn out – are blissfully gazing at an overhead projection of chords and music, strumming, singing and (yes) beaming.