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Maureen
Aloha
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 Posted - 07/25/2004 : 5:24:18 PM
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Aloha Kakou,
I have live in Phoenix, Arizona for 24 years, an intermediate Makua (50+) at Kaimihaku Hale 'O Hula, and learning Ki Ho'alu now about two years on my own from Keola Beamer lessons books and CD sets. Keola is my favorite guitar player that I have ever heard. I also know Esteban locally, who studied under the late Flamenco Master, Andrew Segovia.
I don't talk very well, especially on e-mail, so usually pretty quiet/shy.
One day I was coming home from the ranch. On the NE corner of Scottsdale Road at Pinnacle Peak Road intersection, there is a pretty complex. There used to be a drug store there. It had an awning in front. I stopped there, and Esteban had set up to play under the awning with folding chairs, but it started pouring rain. So I had Esteban and his friend "to myself" for quite a concert.
He was just recovering from an auto accident that smashed his hands, and he was told he would "never play the guitar again," just after coming back from Spain with Segovia. At that time he did not have so much of his own stuff, like Fernando, that he does now. He was doing a lot of Beatles' music he put to Flamenco.
Now he is on tour most of the year. I will never ever forget getting stuck in the rain with Esteban and my "private concert." He told me he trained under Segovia, and I said, "Yeah, right! Nobody trains under Segovia!" But later I found out he really did. So, as usual, I opened my mouth and made a total jackass out of myself.
Well, gee. E-mail is such a bad way to know people. People say I got a "huge heart" and all that kind of stuff. I have heard I'm a "good listener." I am also known for saving about 30 birds one night. I constantly have strays following me home, kitty cats, dogs and even human children. Kids love me, and it's mutual. But I don't have my own kids. And right now, after Mom's death, and my Dad getting some kind of senile dementia, this is really the hardest time in my life. I have been very close to my family.
I talk on e-mail like I'm talking to myself, and it just never occurs to me that real people, especially total strangers, might read it. It's not like having a real conversation to me. E-mail to me is more like journaling.
Well, I can tell you what Mom used to say. That I had so much supposedly brains and talent inside of me, but I have always had such low self-esteem that I never used it. So now I really really need some kind of encouragement with this slack-key stuff. I am trying to learn the whole Hawaiian culture, not just the guitar style. And I mostly only like/prefer the songs in the Hawaiian language (ka 'olelo Hawai'i). I love the Hawaiian language and have been studying that, too. Some day I want to get Kaliko's Immersion series. I also want to get Keola's DVD, but I don't have a DVD player yet and don't know how to hook one up.
I sound like I talk a lot, but only on e-mail, because I type for a career. It's like trying to counterbalance being really shy.
Okay, that's it for the moment anyway. We are on six-week break from Hula.
Me ke Aloha Pumehana,
Auntie Mau
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Maureen
Aloha
USA
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Posted - 07/25/2004 : 5:32:52 PM
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Sorry for the afterthought, but I have a beautiful black-bay racking horse named Shadow Dancer. He is my "kid." I have had him since he was still inside his mama, King's Whimsey (a.k.a. Sheena or the "B*tch" by the wranglers). She was famous for taking cowboys out in the desert and dumping them in a ditch. But me she liked. And she had me the best baby out of the batch from Pisano.
I raised him and broke him with some starting help from Robbie. Robbie started him under saddle and later took him up to Mormon Lake for training on trail. And then I rode him back from Mormon Lake to Scottsdale when he was just 2-1/2. He bucked me off in the river, and it was in the Bridle and Bit paper. Now the two of us are middle-aged old futts.
Auntie Mau hana hou |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 07/25/2004 : 6:35:49 PM
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I see Esteban on TV selling guitars on the shopping network and wondered what kind of guy he is. He's obviously a good player, and I really like his version of "Perfidia" even if it has a drum machine behind it.
It's nice to have you here, Maureen!
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MahinaM
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 07/25/2004 : 6:47:46 PM
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Aloha Maureen!
Welcome to the Taropatch ohana! I am also a shy one too, and haven't told my own story yet (but will eventually when I get up the courage). I've posted stuff here and there, but mostly have gotten lots of info from other Taropatchers and have had a ball just reading other folk's postings. Keep up the good work in learning slack key. I started with Keola's video/cd as well! I'm still struggling too!
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Sarah
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 07/26/2004 : 09:33:04 AM
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Aloha e Auntie Mau,
Welina mai!
Ua heluhelu au, e ho'opa'a ana 'oe i ka 'ölelo Hawai'i. Inä 'oe makemake, hiki ke ho'oma'ama'a me ka wala'au 'ana ma 'ane'i  Nui ko'u makemake i ka 'ölelo kekahi.
aloha,
Sarah
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 07/26/2004 : 11:58:23 AM
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Aloha e Auntie Mau! Welcome to the Taro Patch! If you can hook up a VCR you can hook up a DVD player, and if you can work a CD player you can work a DVD player! Make it extra easy on yourself and get one that has both a VCR and DVD player in one unit and then all you have to do is unhook your current VCR and plug the wires into the same places they are now!
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Pupule
USA
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Posted - 07/27/2004 : 12:45:37 AM
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Hi Auntie Mau,
Welcome. So glad that you introduced yourself.
With your "huge heart", slack key should be easy! Everyone says that's where the music needs to come from so I look forward to hearing your slack key someday! |
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