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• Position: STATELINE - Ukulele as the official state musical instrument of Hawaii - Brief article

Texas has the guitar--Louisiana, the accordion. Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota all claim the fiddle. And now Hawaii is considering a bill that would make the humble ukulele the official state musical instrument. "The ukulele has been widely regarded as an indigenous Hawaiian instrument since the late 1880s," Jim Tranquada, co-author of "The Ukulele: A History," told the Associated Press. Guitar-like instruments were already popular in...