A third-generation Kamaka ukulele builder and manager avoided prison time for failing to file general excise tax returns for six years and racking up a bill of more than $115,000 for the 109-year-old ...

Kamaka Ukulele in 2016 celebrated 100 years as a family-run business making ukulele. Pictured in their Kakaako shop, where the koa wood is cured and stored, are second-generation ukulele makers Sam Jr ...

Dec. 28—Kamaka was less than two months short of what would have been his 99th birthday when he died July 23. The life and legacy of Frederick Ku Kamaka Sr., late president of Kamaka Ukulele Inc., ...

Honolulu-based instrument maker Kamaka Hawaii is wrapping up a year of celebrations commemorating its 100th anniversary of making Kamaka ‘Ukulele. Founded in 1916 by Samuel Kaialiilii Kamaka, Sr. as ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The grandson of the founder of Kamaka Ukulele will have to pay for tax violations, but he won’t go to jail, the state attorney general said Wednesday. On March 5, the office ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The public is invited to celebrate the life of the legendary 'ukulele maker Samuel Kaialiilii Kamaka Jr. -- the craftsman behind the famed Kamaka 'ukulele. Kamaka Jr. was the ...

Chris Kamaka leans back in his chair, strumming an old tenor ukulele, an instrument that his family business, Kamaka Hawaii, has been building for 100 years. He’s been challenged to play a sad song on ...

This is a special new year for Oahu’s Kamaka family, as they celebrate a century of making ukuleles, the string instrument so closely linked to Hawaii. Sam Kamaka founded the company in his Honolulu ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The legendary ukulele maker Samuel Kamaka Jr. passed away Tuesday morning. Kamaka’s father, Sam Kamaka Sr., created the patented Kamaka ukulele — otherwise known as the ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Samuel Kamaka Jr. of the Kamaka ‘ukulele family passed away on Tuesday, March 15. He was 99 years old. The company issued this statement. It is with great sadness that we announce ...