#HawaiianSteel

2023-02-14

Another track from our pandemic remote video series. Last year our bassist, E. Scott Warren, lost his father. He asked if we could record this cover of #CharlieHaden and #PatMetheny tune as a memorial.

I'm playing the Metheny parts on the #HawaiianSteel. For the keys part, I'm playing a #stratocaster using an African #MiCompose tuning.

#mastomusic
youtu.be/q_NlkqjwTlE

2022-12-19

#charting #quiz

Nashville number chart of great old #HawaiianSteel tune. Can you name it?

#SlideGuitar #SteelGuitar #mastomusic #LapSteel

Musical chart in the Nashville Numbers style. Seven rows of numbers. Numbers represent chords where one equals the tonic, two the two minor, etc. A single number means the chord is played the entire measure. First row is 1 1 b2 b2 1 1. Which means major tonic for four beats, tonic for four beats, flat second four beats and four beats, tonic again for four and four.
2022-12-11

#Guitar a day. Early 1930s #Oahu #squareneck #HawaiianSteel. Original price $22.50 (about $400 in today’s dollars). This was a student model that would be bought by mail order. It came with a tone bar and include 52 weekly lessons that would arrive by mail.

#steelguitar #SlideGuitar #AcousticGuitar #mastomusic

Oahu square neck Hawaiian steel guitar. Typical hourglass-shaped acoustic guitar body. Broad black shading around perimeter with reddish tint in center. Round soundhole. Neck is black with diamond shaped white fret markers. Headstock is slotted with white tuning pegs. Oahu logo at top of headstock.
2022-12-03

#Guitar a day. 1997 Weissenborn-style #HawaiianSteel. Handmade by Island Koa Instruments in London.

Got this around 2000 off of eBay. Nut is brass, strings are D’Addario flatwound 11s. Usually tuned to open D or modal C (low to high CGCGCE).

The pickup is a Sunrise—if it’s good enough for Mr. Dave, it’s sure good enough for me.

The YouTube clip is just a loose improv from a club performance with guitarist Bo Lankenau. #mastomusic #SlideGuitar

youtu.be/HepOF57odas

Hawaiian steel guitar. A yellow-brown Kia wood body with a darker brown fretboard. Body is an hourglass shape with a round soundhole. In the soundhole there is a black rectangular pickup with a thin cable coming from it. The 6 tuning pegs at the headstock are small and silver.

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