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In October, 1936, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys and McAuliffe, performing with a Rickenbacker B–6 lap steel, recorded the remarkably well selling record, "Steel Guitar Rag". [23] Due to the need to have different chords or voicings available, the design of the lap steel and the way it was played underwent continual change as the style ...
The modern word guitar and its antecedents have been applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times, sometimes causing confusion. The English word guitar, the German Gitarre, and the French guitare were all adopted from the Spanish guitarra, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic قيثارة (qīthārah) [6] and the Latin cithara, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek ...
One indication of slack key's increasing visibility beyond the Islands is that the first four winners of the Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album were slack key collections: Slack Key Guitar, Volume 2 in 2005, [6] Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Volume 1 in 2006, [7] Legends of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar—Live from Maui [8] and ...
In 1995, Bob Taylor was interested in finding out if using exotic tonewoods in quality guitars was more important than luthier techniques and good design. He built a dreadnought guitar's back and sides with oak from shipping pallets he found at the factory, used a nondescript piece of 2x4 timber for its top, and made of neck out of pallet oak.
Largest percentage win was registered in Arizona (5.6%), which as of Wednesday evening had the second-largest raw vote difference (184,908). From closest to most, he won by 1.4% in Michigan, 1.9% ...
Check Out: 6 US Cities Where You Can Still Enjoy a Luxury Vacation for Cheap. And those impulse purchases can add up, especially with the airport’s typically marked up prices. The survey found ...
Earnings per share guidance was updated to a range of $6.10 to $6.25, compared to a previous range of $6.10 to $6.35. Barry said the company is at a turning point, as "layers of pressures that ...