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  2. Slack-key guitar - Wikipedia

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    Slack-key guitar. Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Cyril Pahinui in Waikiki, 2012. Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, which has been used ...

  3. Leonard Kwan - Wikipedia

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    Leonard Keala Kwan Sr (1931–2000) was one of the most influential Hawaiian slack-key guitarists to emerge in the period immediately preceding the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance of the 1970s. He made the first LP of slack key instrumentals, co-wrote the second slack key instruction book, and composed a number of pieces that have become part of ...

  4. Ledward Kaapana - Wikipedia

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    ledkaapana.com. Ledward Kaapana (born August 25, 1948) is a Hawaiian musician, best known for playing in the slack key guitar style. In 2011, he received a National Heritage Fellowship, the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. [1] He also plays steel guitar, ukulele, autoharp, and bass guitar, and is a ...

  5. Ozzie Kotani - Wikipedia

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    Ozzie Kotani is a slack-key guitar player and a well-respected teacher, arranger, solo performer and accompanist. [1] Kotani was born in 1956 in Honolulu, Hawaii in the neighborhood of Pauoa. He learned how to play the 'ukulele in fourth grade, but his interest in kī hō‘alu, or Hawaiian slack key guitar, was sparked in high school when he ...

  6. Lap steel guitar - Wikipedia

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    Variable depending on choice of tuning. The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or Lap Slide Guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of playing a traditional acoustic guitar, in which the performer's ...

  7. Slide guitar - Wikipedia

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    With the "slack-key" the Hawaiians found it easy to play a three-chord song by moving a piece of metal along the fretboard and began to play the instrument across the lap. Near the end of the nineteenth century, a Hawaiian named Joseph Kekuku became proficient in playing this way using a steel bar against the guitar strings. The bar was called ...

  8. Dave Guard - Wikipedia

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    He was particularly attracted to the unique rhythmic sounds of finger-picked slack-key ukulele and guitar music masterfully performed by the many of his neighbors and beach boys. Guard attended Punahou School , a private school established in 1849 by Hawaii's New England missionary families during junior high school and high school.

  9. Raymond Kāne - Wikipedia

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    Musician. Instrument. Slack-key guitar. Raymond Kaleoalohapoinaʻoleohelemanu[a] Kāne[1] (/ ˈkɑːneɪ /, Hawaiian: [ˈkaːne]; October 2, 1925 - February 27, 2008), [2] was one of Hawaii 's acknowledged masters of the slack-key guitar. Born in Koloa, Kauaʻi, he grew up in Nanakuli on Oʻahu 's Waiʻanae Coast where his stepfather worked as ...

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