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The Hawaiian Technology Inside the Sound of Modern Music

Tech From Here: Hawaiʻi

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Other sources

  1. How hawaiian steel guitar changed american music 180972028 (smithsonianmag.com) smithsonianmag.com
  2. Hawaiian steel guitar resistance hidden history (nypl.org) nypl.org
  3. Joseph kekuku (pacific-strings.org) pacific-strings.org
  4. patents.google.com/patent/US2089171A/en patents.google.com

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
A handmade steel guitar in a Country Music Hall of Fame display case, shown with its museum label and a Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies posterPhoto: e Kat, CC0Photo record
Slide 2
A sepia studio portrait of a young man in a light suit, a flower lei around his neck, seated in a carved chair with a steel guitar lying flat across his lap and both hands resting on itSource: Lo-Max Films, American EpicPhoto record
Slide 3
A halftone newspaper photograph of five men in matching white tunics with dark sashes, holding ukuleles and guitars, printed on page 6 of The Colville Examiner of July 22, 1916 under a headline about Hawaiian music at the Chautauqua; the article text names Kekuku's Hawaiian quintettePhoto: Colville Examiner, PD, croppedPhoto record
Slide 4
A black-and-white photograph, about 1952, of a Hawaiian musical group on a stage in Chicago, a hula dancer at each side: one player works a steel guitar mounted on a stand, beside players on upright bass and guitar, all in aloha shirts and leis before a painted island backdropPhoto: Pauly Studios, HI State ArchivesPhoto record
Slide 5
A 1950 photograph of teacher and steel guitar maker Eddie Alkire seated with an electric steel guitar across his knee at a national guitar teachers' convention, beside a display board headed Frequent Questions that asks what the chord name of your tuning is, with instruction books and sheet music at his elbowSource: Sousa Archives, U. IllinoisPhoto record
Slide 6
A Rickenbacker Electro B6 lap steel guitar from the late 1930s lying on a grey surface, photographed from above, with its chrome-covered horseshoe-magnet pickup set under the strings near the bridgePhoto: Eagledj, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record
Slide 7
A 1934 aluminum-cast Ro-Pat-In 'Frying Pan' electric lap steel guitar in a museum case at the Museum of Making MusicPhoto: doryfour, CC BY-SA 2.0Photo record
Slide 8a
The 1931 one-piece maple prototype of the Rickenbacker Frying Pan electric lap steel guitar, a round solid body with a long neck and a pickup under the strings, standing in a glass display case with reflections and a museum label behind itPhoto: wetwebwork, CC BY-SA 2.0Photo record
Slide 8b
Close view of the body of an original 1934 Rickenbacker Electro A-22 'Frying Pan' lap steel guitar: a solid, round cast-aluminum disc with a horseshoe-magnet pickup and a bridge, seven strings running across it and no sound hole or hollow soundboxPhoto: Retrofret Vintage GuitarsPhoto record
Slide 9
A 1938 Farm Security Administration photograph of a guitarist playing a steel-bodied guitar at a microphone during a Cajun band contest at the National Rice Festival in Crowley, LouisianaPhoto: Russell Lee, FSA, public domainPhoto record
Slide 10
A photograph of the center label of a Victor 78 rpm record, number 18569-B, Tomi Tomi (Hawaiian Hula Hula), credited to the Hawaiian Quintette with Hawaiian stringed instruments and drawn from the incidental music to Richard Walton Tully's play The Bird of Paradise; the Hawaiʻi State Archives dates the recording April 11, 1913Source: HI State Archives, Victor 18569Photo record
Slide 11
A two-neck electric console steel guitar built in Detroit around 1963 by Felton W. Williams Jr. for gospel church music, shown on its steel legsPhoto: Smithsonian NMAAHC, CC0Photo record

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