Welcome to my Ukulele Methods page. On these pages I would like you to have the opportunity to see just a few of the old method books and Ukulele Advertisements of long ago. All of these methods are long out of print, and the songs they offer are, as you will see, extremely elementary in nature, yet these books are very important as an almost forgotten history of Ukulele reference. I would love to be able to show you many more of my over sixty method books, as well as to have the graphics bigger to enable you to read all the great writing on the inside, but it would take too long for them to load. This is merely a taste.

   Here is an old Ukulele Self Teaching Method by May Singhi Breen, "The Ukulele Lady".
There is no copyright date anywhere on this small manual, but obviously it is very old.
This Method is for any Ukulele tuned A, D, F#, B, therefore all chords shown read a whole step higher than traditional G, C, E, A tuning.

   Here we have a great book of Emenee Junior Musical Instruments. This small two inch by three inch Twenty Page booklet contains such great instruments as the Golden Trumpet (plastic), the Ebony and Silver Clarinet (plastic) the Silver Saxophone and Golden Slide Trombone (also plastic) the Golden Piano Accordion; Automatic Player Drum; the Golden Harp and the Roll Harmonica (also plastic) as well as the Flamingo Ukulele and Cowboy Guitar shown. The inside cover of this small booklet (Left) boasts the temptation to Start Your Own Band. Gotta love that. There are many other instruments I have not shown due to space. I know this is not a method but I really wanted to put this booklet on this site. I know that there are more of these books out there but I have never seen another.

   This little method has a copyright date of 1950. This sixteen page booklet came with the plastic Flamingo Uke. Along with the uke came the plastic Arthur Godfrey Uke Player. The Uke player allowed one to play the uke without ever having to practice chords. The booklet explains that "you won't become an expert on the instrument but you will be able to play thousands of your favorite songs." The Uke player was a small plastic box that the player could fasten over the first five frets of the instrument. The box had six small buttons which, when pushed, would finger some basic chord positions for you. This small booklet is not rare and neither is the Uke player, I have three.