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Here I am playing the wellknown love song from Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. The warm sound of my Makapili soprano fits it wonderfully, IMHO. I didn’t care much about “proper arranging” when I played this. So it’s pretty unwieldy: I’m using all the 17 frets of the Makapili, but nevertheless there are some pretty bad stretches which…

A few classics from Gaspar Sanz. The ukulele probably resembles the baroque guitar much better as the classical guitar does.

I was always fascinated by John Dowland’s melancholic, but beautiful music. Here is my humble attempt at playing “Dowland’s Midnight” on my uke. This is a super-cheap chinese made schaepe soprano ukulele. The strings are ukuMele Fluorcarbon by www.ukumele.de .    

The wellknown drinking song by Pierre Attaignant: Tourdion! A renaissance earworm!

Te Deum by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, played on a Kiwaya KS-0. I tuned it to ADF#B, and used a capo at the 2nd fret, to achieve a higher pitch. This sounds better for this piece, I think.

The famous tune from The Magic Flute, where papageno sounds his magic bells to escape Monostratos and his slaves. It was a bit of a challenge to find the right key to make it sound good on the ukulele. I’m playing here an Ukumele mahogany soprano ukulele with ADF#B tuning. It wouldn’t sound so nice…

I thought: This sounds much better with the ukulele as with the guitar — I’ve gotta do something! UPDATE: Tabs are now available here. The tabs didn’t work out well with Powertab. Perhaps I’ll consider this piece when I make another tab booklet with Lilypond.

“Sooft ich meine Tobackspfeife” (No, I don’t smoke.)