© 2018 by Bill Plant, Trisha Scott, and Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., 903 Square Street, Mount Joy, PA 17552.
Learn to Play the Ukulele, 2nd Edition, first published in 2018, is an updated and revised version of Learn to Play the Ukulele, first published in 2012 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holders.
Print ISBN 978-1-56523-972-2
eISBN 978-1-60765-523-7
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Plant, Bill, author. | Scott, Trisha, author.
Title: Learn to play the ukulele / Bill Plant and Trisha Scott.
Description: 2nd edition. | Mount Joy, PA : Fox Chapel Publishing, [2018] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018030366 | ISBN 9781565239722 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Ukulele--Methods--Self-instruction.
Classification: LCC MT645.8 .P53 2018 | DDC 787.8/9193--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018030366
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CD instrumentalists: Bill Plant, Trisha Scott, and Luke R. Davies
CD vocalists: Bill Plant, Trisha Scott, and Carmel Carmody (Ukulele Lady)
CD Harmonica: Luke R. Davies
Special thanks to Luke R. Davies and Mike Couch for their assistance with the sound engineering and production for the CD of our tracks.
Thanks to Peter Hurney (Pohaku Ukulele), Chuck Moore, and Gary Zimnicki for the use of the photos on page 14 and 15.
Thanks to Eric Bogle for the use of the song “Aussie BBQ” here.
Thanks to Ian Fisk for the photos appearing on pages 12, 13, and 52.
Pages 10 and 11: Images of sugarcane field, King David Kalakuau, historical newspaper clipping, Ernest Kaai, and Arthur Godfrey courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The photos on the following pages have been used under the following Creative Commons licenses: 25 (Nicky Mehta [photo by Nick of Chelmsford, Essex] and Jason Mraz [photo by Moses Namkung]) under Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0); 11 and 21 (Tiny Tim [photo by Christina Lynn Johnson]) under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.5); 31 (Kate Micucci [photo by Kafziel]) under Attribution –ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). To learn more, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses.
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