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RWD
`Olu`olu
USA
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 Posted - 09/13/2007 : 09:19:09 AM
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Just hoping the idea brought some humor to you.
I am in a weird mood today.
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
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Sarah
`Olu`olu
571 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2007 : 09:56:45 AM
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Craig, what tuning is that piano in?
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2007 : 10:06:15 AM
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I cannot play slack key on my piano because mine does not have strings (its a Clavinova). It only has microchips and resistors and capacitors and such. But I can push a button and make it sound like many different kinds of guitars.
Craig - that is pretty cool. I don't even know if my fingers could move that fast on piano. Sounds like part slack key/part ragtime/part boogie woogie. Cool.
Hey Bob - no shame stay weird. I've done it myself, a time or two. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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Russell Letson
`Olu`olu
USA
504 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2007 : 11:53:26 AM
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Well, there's George Winston, whose accompaniment on some of Keola's recordings manages to fit in pretty well.
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RWD
`Olu`olu
USA
850 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2007 : 2:10:15 PM
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I'm thinking more like Sarah and that's what made the idea funny to me.
I think you get more open strings that way. Right Sarah?  |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
1533 Posts |
Posted - 09/13/2007 : 2:35:21 PM
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Hawaiian piano is its own genre of Hawaiian music which is not widely played. The style, like the uke and steel, often follows the slack key influence. Aaron J. Sala is keeping this beautiful music alive.
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Sarah
`Olu`olu
571 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2007 : 03:00:09 AM
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Right, Bob, lots of open strings, so it's a shame to use a capo. I never capo my piano.
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
2165 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2007 : 1:22:14 PM
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| A friend of mine had a capo made for his Eb tuba to drop it to D. A piano capo would probably need a case and other accoutrements. |
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2007 : 1:45:57 PM
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| It's a little known fact that slack key piano originated back in the days of the paniolos as well. They brought their pianos along with their guitars but quickly realized that it was too difficult to move them from campfire to campfire. When it was time to leave, pianos remained scattered across the countryside with nobody left who knew how to tune them properly. (Which, interestingly enough, resulted in the expression "You can't tune a piano but you can tuna fish," which has since been stolen and misquoted by haoles.) The rest, of course, is musical history. |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
1260 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2007 : 1:55:02 PM
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"'Opihi Moemoe" sounds great like that! Is this published as sheet music for piano? I'd like to purchase it and learn it!
Mahalo,
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He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
'Alika / Polinahe |
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
1260 Posts |
Posted - 09/14/2007 : 1:57:46 PM
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Originally posted by hapakid
Hawaiian piano is its own genre of Hawaiian music which is not widely played. The style, like the uke and steel, often follows the slack key influence. Aaron J. Sala is keeping this beautiful music alive.
Jesse Tinsley
'Ae, and so is Ata Damasco. I keep in touch with both of them by e-mail. They're very sweet.
'Alika |
He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
'Alika / Polinahe |
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
1260 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2007 : 1:11:17 PM
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Originally posted by Sarah
Craig, what tuning is that piano in?
Isn't that g tuning? It's the key of g at least.
'Alika |
He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
'Alika / Polinahe |
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
2187 Posts |
Posted - 09/18/2007 : 9:05:24 PM
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Originally posted by hawaiianmusicfan138
"'Opihi Moemoe" sounds great like that! Is this published as sheet music for piano? I'd like to purchase it and learn it!
No, I just took the tab from Leonard Kwan's book that I'd previously entered into the computer and had the tab program output it as piano instead of guitar (which accounts for the strange slurs). |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
1260 Posts |
Posted - 09/20/2007 : 11:34:21 AM
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Originally posted by cpatch
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Originally posted by hawaiianmusicfan138
"'Opihi Moemoe" sounds great like that! Is this published as sheet music for piano? I'd like to purchase it and learn it!
No, I just took the tab from Leonard Kwan's book that I'd previously entered into the computer and had the tab program output it as piano instead of guitar (which accounts for the strange slurs).
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He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
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Peter Medeiros
`Olu`olu
546 Posts |
Posted - 09/21/2007 : 06:27:30 AM
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All Hawaiian songs can be played on the piano this way. I used to hear a lot of this style of playing when I was younger. It is a style of piano that emulates slack key, using an alternating bass on the left hand and the right hand either comping, playing the melody or a counter melody. More often than not the marker would be the familiar V7 to I vamp at the end of a verse. If the player is a good there will be some variation otherwise it will become predictable. In comparison to other styles of piano it is simple, though not well known outside of Hawaii.
All of the music that I write or the slack key that I transcribe can be played on the piano. The obvious differences will be the inability to reproduce the legato character of slack key. That is,the smooth change of one note to another when sliding up or down a string and the triplets with an interval larger than a fourth -- you would need really big hands or have to move really quick. |
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