Ukulele Strikes a New Chord. By KIM MURPHY . Oct. 1, 2002 12 AM PT . ... It had a C chord you could play with one index finger and you tuned it by singing a ditty on open strings: ...

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… ...

Richard Dew coaching Chin Koerner on ukulele finger placements during a free class at 2 p.m. on the first and third ... What we do is teach a couple of chords, say ‘put your fingers here,’ and ...