Plate 177
Ukulele
The ukulele is a small, four-stringed guitar from Hawaii.
- Family
- Photoreal
- Origin
- Captured
- Habit
- Diurnal: kept on the page
- Voice
- Yes, with the sound on
- Licenses
- CC0, MIT, BSD
How to play
Tap it to strum a chord.
Notes
It grew from little guitars that Portuguese settlers brought to the islands in the 1870s, and its name is often said to mean "jumping flea," for the way a player's fingers hop over the strings.
Tap it and a pick sweeps across the strings four times, and each string shakes back and forth between the two ends where it is held. A string's note depends on how long, how tight and how heavy it is: a shorter, tighter string plays higher.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Ukulele 01Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentered and scaled. | Joseph Burgan | CC0 1.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)