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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 for centuries, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Leonard Kwan. 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 ...
Died. August 24, 1994 (1994-08-24) (aged 62) Honolulu, Hawaii. Edwin Bradfield Liloa Chillingworth, Jr., known as Sonny Chillingworth, (July 14, 1932 – August 24, 1994) was an American guitarist and singer. Widely influential in Hawaiian music, he played slack-key guitar and is widely regarded as one of the most influential slack-key ...
Jeff Peterson (guitarist) Jeff Peterson is an American slack key guitar player from Maui, Hawaii. The son of a paniolo at Haleakala Ranch, Peterson was exposed to the sounds of slack key at an early age. Peterson's style fuses traditional Slack Key with elements of classical and jazz guitar, [1] at which styles he is also adept.
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