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  2. Lap steel guitar - Wikipedia

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    [8]: 8 In 1916, recordings of indigenous Hawaiian music outsold all other U.S. musical genres. [9] This popularity initiated the manufacture of guitars designed specifically to be played horizontally. [8]: 13 The archetypal lap steel guitar is the acoustic Hawaiian guitar.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

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

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    Quincy Cortez, 16, takes his third lesson with Alan Akaka, who has been playing the Hawaiian steel guitar for more than 50 years. (Stephanie Yang / Los Angeles Times)

  6. Music of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop.Styles like slack-key guitar are well known worldwide, while Hawaiian-tinged music is a frequent part of Hollywood soundtracks.

  7. 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."

  8. Slack-key guitar - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Joseph Kekuku - Wikipedia

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    In 1889 while attending the Kamehameha School for Boys, Kekuku accidentally discovered the sound of the steel guitar. In an article first seen in 1932, C.S. DeLano, publisher of the "Hawaiian Music In Los Angeles" whose "Hawaiian Love Song" was the first original composition to be written for the Hawaiian Steel Guitar said: