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The Ukulele
The 'ukulele has been an icon of Hawaiian music for over 120 years, but where did it come from? The original 'ukuleles were a combination of different instruments from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe brought to Hawaii along with plantation workers in the 1880s. It combined elements from several different instruments; the braguinha, the rajão, and the cavaquinho. The word 'ukulele is Hawaiian for "jumping flea". The story goes that a Portuguese immigrant jumped off a ship into the water while playing one, and the Hawaiians watching dubbed him and the instrument 'Ukulele!