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Paul Murdock
Aloha
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 Posted - 09/01/2002 : 3:24:24 PM
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Good afternoon. My first posting. Could anyone guide me to the
music/lyrics for "Garden of Paradise" as performed by Gabby Pahinui;
and, to a source for Tahitian slack key, which Ledward K. mentions, and which I've seen referred to a couple of other times.
Thank you.
P.S. This is the most knowledgeable discussion site I've seen. Glad
I found it.
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 09/01/2002 : 6:55:53 PM
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Aloha, Paul,
Where y'at in Louisiana? I was born in Shreveport, grew up in Alexandria, and had relatives in Lake Charles.
Fran (Guidry)
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cmdrpiffle
`Olu`olu
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2002 : 11:39:35 PM
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Paul,
Aloha !!! Welcome to the realm. Good to see we have the Southern Front supported now :) Tahitian Slack Key? To be honest the only mention of it I've heard is on HAPA's 'In the name of Love' Album...album, cd, disc, hell, am I dating myself?...anyway, On one of the songs Barry Flanagan plays what he called a 'Tahitian Banjo', which sounded like a high powered ukulele maybe in the key of F, but thats a guess, with an electric pickup. So to sum things up, I'm no help at all.
But.....I've a sweet collection (3) of Nationals....2 originals, and a 2000 Style O.....wanna talk Swamp Stomp? Delta Blues, Zydeco.....Life should revolve between delta blues and slack key. Then, it would be a perfect world. Delta blues to confront and spell out all that is essential in life, and Kiho'Alu to take it to the higher realm and hold tight the good, and disperse with the wind the un-needed. Okay, I'll shut up now.
So in other words, peace love and tye-dye
Mike
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Paul Murdock
Aloha
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Posted - 09/02/2002 : 3:24:35 PM
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Mike -- thanks for the reply re Tahitian music. The references to it
that I remember (one, I don't) is in the liner notes to Black Sand, song No. 6, Nui Papa, and No. 7, Tue Hey.
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Pauline Leland
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 09/02/2002 : 4:04:04 PM
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Bell, faintly ringing...
There was a discussion of a slack key song and whether it was copyrighted on this forum. Mark Nelson said it was a Tahitian folk song.
From that thin evidence, maybe Tahitian slack key is Tahitian songs played in slack key style? Of course, they could also have borrowed the Hawaiians' style, just like this mainlander has.
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Pauline Leland
`Olu`olu
USA
783 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2002 : 4:36:12 PM
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That faint bell? Someone stuffed a sock in it or should have. 
It was a Fijian folk song, "Isa Lei".
By the way, Paul, welcome to the forum. 
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Mark
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 09/02/2002 : 8:22:45 PM
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Thanks for the bell...
For a Tahitian song played slack key style, see "Tiare Tahiti" in Keola's Mel Bay book.
BTW: I've heard about Tahitian slack key, but never heard any.
But I have heard Tongan slack key. Tomasi Tukuafu, a friend who lives in Ashland, Oregon, learned as a kid, then stopped for many years. He's recently taken it up again. According to Tomasi, it had pretty well died out even by the time he learned quite a few years ago.
He uses a wonderful F tuning; if memory serves the top three strings are E, C, G while the three bottom strings are Bb, F and C in some order or other. This gives you the bass for I, IV and V chords with no alternating bass.
I also heard someone play a tiny bit of a sadly lost and fractured version of Rarotongan slack key when I was there a couple of years ago. He was trying to remember what his grandfather played while walking down to the fishing boats at dawn, "Patapata maniata" -- "The Dawn Riff"" was how he translated it. Played out of a G TaroPatch type tuning, with ascending and descending melodic lines like what Aunty Alice Namakelua played.
There's a lot more out there, I'm sure.
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 09/03/2002 : 12:19:45 AM
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It was a Fijian folk song, "Isa Lei".
This can be found in both of Keola's current instruction books (Mel Bay & Homespun/Hal Leonard). The Mel Bay version is easier to play, while the Homespun version is richer and more textured. Either way, it's a beautiful song.
Craig
P.S. Mark, I've been trying to email you but your email account is full.
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