Sam Kamaka is showing me the original pineapple ukulele. It's oval, not the usual nipped-in-at-the-waist model. His father, Samuel K. Kamaka, designed this one around 1916, he tells me, and when it ...

Walking into the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library, island melodies and a ukulele chorus might not be the first thing you’d expect to hear. But that’s exactly what you’ll find on the first and third ...