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  2. Oahu Music Company - Wikipedia

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    The Oahu Music Company was a music education program in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s to teach students to play the Hawaiian Guitar. Popular culture in America became fascinated with Hawaiian music during the first half of the twentieth century [1] and in 1916, recordings of indigenous Hawaiian instruments outsold every other genre of music in the U.S. [2] By 1920, sales of ...

  3. The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can ... - AOL

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    By 1916, records of Hawaiian steel guitar were outselling every other music genre in the nation. Hawaiian music started cropping up in Hollywood soundtracks and L.A. clubs, and was further ...

  4. Steel guitar - Wikipedia

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    The sound of Hawaiian music featuring steel guitar became an enduring musical fad in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century and in 1916 recordings of indigenous Hawaiian music outsold all other U.S. musical genres. This popularity spawned the manufacture of guitars designed specifically to be played horizontally.

  5. Ernest Kaʻai - Wikipedia

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    Kaʻai, Ernest K (1940). Kaʻai's Enchanting Melodies Of The Islands For Hawaiian Guitar. Chart Music Pub. House, Inc. ASIN B0012O0PQM. Kaʻai, Ernest K (1940). The Hawaiian hula instruction : complete in 10 easy lessons / [compiled by Ernest K. Kaai.] Royal Hawaiian Distributing Co. Kaʻai, Ernest K (1941). Songs of old Hawaii.

  6. Dick McIntire - Wikipedia

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    Dick Kaihue McIntire (1902–1951) was a Honolulu-born steel guitarist active in the 1930s and 1940s. During that era, Hawaiian music was quite popular in the U.S. to the extent of being a musical fad. [1]

  7. Music of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian Music and Musicians. University Press of Hawaii. pp. 350–360. ISBN 0-8248-0578-X. Indie blog, 2008: "Country music musicians were drawn to Hawaiian music when they first heard the Hawaiian steel guitar at the San Francisco Pan Pacific Exposition in 1915. Soon, artists such as Hoot Gibson and Jimmie Davis were recording with Hawaiians.

  8. Lap steel guitar - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1930s, the newly electrified lap steel guitar took a prominent position in a type of dance music known as "Western swing", [7] a form of jazz swing that combined elements of country music and Hawaiian music. [2]: 88 [19] Pioneers of the genre include bandleaders Milton Brown [35] and Bob Wills. [23]

  9. Sol Hoʻopiʻi - Wikipedia

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    Some historians credit Joseph Kekuku with inventing the Hawaiian steel guitar about 1889 from an acoustic Spanish guitar. [13] This was long before Hoʻopiʻi's time. As far as the electrified lap steel, Philip Kerr mentions in the 1942 Baptista video that Hoʻopiʻi "was the originator of this electric guitar that he's playing."

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