BUDDING musicians are tuning into a new instrument at Park Street School, Wombwell - the ukulele.
It's become unlikely top favourite at the junior school where 34 pupils are learning to play an instrument similar to that associated with old time music halls and 1930s screen entertainer George Formby.
Across the country, shops report a roaring trade in the tiny guitar-shaped instruments while some schools are abandoning the recorders, the mainstay of primary school lessons for generations, to set up their own ukulele orchestras.
At Park Street there are still lessons in the recorder but a spokesperson said the ukulele was flourishing and the idea for the lessons had come from the children.
As part of a scheme to get an entire class involved in music learning, the pupils were given presentations on the options and year four went for the ukulele.
