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OHIO-HAOLE
Akahai
USA
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 Posted - 04/03/2004 : 04:29:18 AM
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 Hey everyone...remember true Aloha of Ki ho alu ...It relies not so much on the type of ax one uses..but on the heart and soul of the player!...Ken. |
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sandman
Lokahi
USA
181 Posts |
Posted - 04/03/2004 : 5:15:18 PM
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| At this point in time I have a La Patrie Collection classical guitar. I also have a handful of ukuleles, which will probably be expanding (if one can expand a handful) before my guitar stash does. I believe, as Ohio-Haole said, its the heart and sould of the player and not the ax which counts. |
Leap into the boundless and make it your home.
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huiohana
Lokahi
115 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2004 : 09:05:17 AM
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Ho, if my wife let me have that much to spend on a guitar...I would buy an Ovation(what I have now) and use the rest on some poke and some ino. I would be a very happy man. Also, like the Haole from Ohio said...it is up to you on what you want. What ever sound you are looking for is what you should go for. Still not sure, maybe start small and then buy something bigger when you start jamming. You will always go back to that first one once in awhile. A hui hou...Keali'i K. |
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tahitijack
Aloha
USA
43 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2004 : 11:16:08 AM
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| I love my Taylor K22ce, which is all Koa (koa top, back, sides). Every time I open the case it looks up at me and says Aloha! I hope you enjoy your Martin but someday you might want to trade it for Taylor K22ce. Although its a small body guitar it sounds great unplugged. The real treat is the wonderful tone it has when its amplified. |
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Edited by - tahitijack on 04/05/2004 11:24:37 AM |
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Steven Espaniola
Lokahi
225 Posts |
Posted - 04/22/2004 : 6:49:55 PM
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| One word: Rainsong! Ever since Uncle George K. recommended it and I got to strum his 12 string, I had to have my own! I have a WS1000 6 string. For Kiho`alu, its perfect as it consistently stays in whatever tuning you choose. My other guitar would always slip out of tune during gigs. Also, it is not affected by capo placement or room temperature. Try to seek out a pre 2002 model as that is the year they moved from Kihei, Maui to Washington state. They also switched from a Fishman preamp to the LR Baggs system. |
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OHIO-HAOLE
Akahai
USA
86 Posts |
Posted - 04/24/2004 : 04:32:38 AM
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 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAloha!Family!...Whew, i was just going for Aloha but started to sneeze and my finger wouldn't let up!...Anyway just got back from the music store...trading in a couple of my guitars, and picked up an Ovation Ballader, Really liked the sound of slack key on this thing , and it's really reasonable Under $700. Anybody else got any Ovation feedback? Didn't buy it yet but it sure played EASY! Mahalo...Ken. |
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
1635 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2004 : 7:30:38 PM
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| I just found a beautiful orange crate, trimmed the sides a bit, bought a nice oak shovel handle and some monofilament. I'm thinking of fitting in a coffee can so it sound more like one of them resonantors. |
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Bwop
Lokahi
USA
244 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2004 : 11:35:46 PM
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Aloha e Raymond,
Hope it's "Folgers".... "Hill's Bros" cans suck as resonators.... |
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cmdrpiffle
`Olu`olu
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2004 : 10:50:50 AM
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Not true.
If you punch a couple of holes in the side, Hills Bros. make
perfectly respectable resonators. |
my Poodle is smarter than your honor student |
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David
Akahai
92 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2004 : 1:12:08 PM
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I've been lusting after one of those Rainsongs, because of the high humidity here on the shore and the hopes for semi bulletproof travel. I recently tried a Dean Playmate, one of their better models in a store and ended up playing for an hour. Sure sounded nice for $85, and is kinda like a dispose-a travel guitar with a lifetime warrantee.
Here's a cookie tin banjo, which is about as basic as they come.
http://www.rahul.net/gaa/CTBanjo/index.shtml
Only one thing more basic is a gourd banjo. First you go out and kill a possum, skin and tan it. Then craft a neck out of some local hardwood. No need to worry about frets, because you'll play this thing fretless for juicy slides. Get some ebony friction type violin tuners. Get a gourd from the garden, make holes for the neck and the skin head. (that oil possum skin may cease smelling after a few years). Same mono you use for ahi fishing. Then this is what you get ...... an ipu-banjo!
http://www.gourdbanjo.com/GBhtml/intro.html |
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2004 : 2:14:08 PM
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And for coffee can resonators it seems like Maxwell House is the preferred brand:
http://tweedsblues.net/trader/cheapthrills.html
(includes MP3 sample!) |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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huiohana
Lokahi
115 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2004 : 3:35:37 PM
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| As long as it sounds good to the musician, ae? A hui hou, Keali'i. |
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2004 : 4:21:05 PM
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Raymond,
Would that be a blot-on neck or a mortise and tenon job?
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2004 : 4:30:41 PM
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Ken,
OVATION< YES!!! houw could i have forgotten to mention them as a great guitar for the islands??? I have had a 12 string, 12 fret plainjane construction grade Ovation since I first heard it played by a duo, the first week in Alaska in 1971. Ijust had to have one, and it was the only one in town, so I bought it from the guy. For years I played it as a twelve, and as the strings would break (why change them if they don't break, eh?) I would cut off the lower course and play it as a six string until they broke. It plays easily, sounds good enough on it's own, and really great plugged in, stays in tune forever, and needs no maintaenance at all. I have never had a humidifier in it and we have 15% in winter, around 40-50 in summer. I've had it in the back of my plane at 40 below for half a day, took it into a cabin and played it, in tune, whth no adjustments. Might be the first bulletproof guitar. I daresay maybe even better than Raymond's soon to be finished orange crate special (sounds like a song title.......)
As I have graduated to "Better" guitars over the years, I have been oft tempted to sell the ovation, have even advertised it a time or two, and had it in two garage sales. Fortunately, nobody else likes the ugly suckers, so i still have it, at my office, next to my desk within an easy arms reach. I play it several times weekly, it still sounds great, still stays in tune,but I do change the strings at least every decade now, whether it needs it or not.
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 04/26/2004 : 6:26:15 PM
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| one more thing about Ovations; they slide off your lap. BUT, not if you take a piece of deerskin and glue it smoot side to the guitar on the lower waist of the soundbox, or soundgourd, or whatever that round thing is called. No more slip! Can't think of another objection to owning one. |
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