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alasdair
Aloha
Germany
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 Posted - 07/13/2004 : 11:37:55 AM
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Hi all,
I'll bore you with a wee story..
I've been playing guitar for about 22 years (started age 11)
and 8 of those solely as a gigging musician. One night i was
playing in a bar in amsterdam, doing my usual *thang*, ragtime,
blues, standards and songs in wierd tunings, when an elderly couple
commented that i was really good at playing ki ho`alu.. of course i'd
never heard of ki ho`alu, slack-key or any hawaiian music for that matter (except the songs blue hawaii & sleepwalk).
Anyways, it turns out that they're *doing* europe and hail from honolulu and we yap for several hours on hawaii and the music (i've ALLWAYS been infatuated with the idea of one day travelling there).. anyways, a while later 2 CD's arrive one was "Led live" and the other the hawaiian masters cd.. Woaah.. cool, that's exactly what i'd been doing for years, playing around in alternate tunings, alternate bass runs, and fartarsing around with harmonics... So,quickly soaked up all the songs on the cd's and started playing more slack-key at my gigs, maybe 6 months later i'd allready booked a flight to honolulu for to pick up on the subtleties of the music.
So, a 3-week vacation turned into 8 months (oops), after seeing 5 of the islands, i settled on maui, saw loads of live music.. worked as a tour guide driving up to haleakala at sunrise and down the hana highway, played 2 nights / week (pioneer inn/maui brews) and met loads of lovely folks..
catch y'all later
alasdair
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 07/13/2004 : 6:58:41 PM
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Bob Brozman told us, at the recent music camp in Maui, that most countries outside of Europe use some form of open G tuning, including much of Africa, the Caribbean, South America and even New Guinea. He said it's the least number of turns of the tuners to get from standard tuning to an open tuning.
He said only people who carve bushes into squares (Europeans) would tune a guitar so it sounded like "nothing" when you strum it open.
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