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  2. Ukulele - Wikipedia

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    Another common tuning for the soprano ukulele is the higher string-tension D 6 tuning (or simply D tuning), A 4 –D 4 –F ♯ 4 –B 4, one step higher than the G 4 –C 4 –E 4 –A 4 tuning. Once considered standard, this tuning was commonly used during the Hawaiian music boom of the early 20th century, and is often seen in sheet music ...

  3. Slack-key guitar - Wikipedia

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    Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing, which has been used for centuries, involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a ...

  4. Music of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Slack-key guitar (kī ho`alu in Hawaiian) is a fingerpicked playing style, named for the fact that the strings are most often "slacked" or loosened to create an open (unfingered) chord, either a major chord (the most common is G, which is called "taro patch" tuning) or a major 7th (called a "wahine" tuning). A tuning might be invented to play a ...

  5. Nick Manoloff - Wikipedia

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    Dark Eyes: Russian Gypsy Ballad (with Hawaiian guitar chords, ukulele chords, guitar chords). English lyrics by Bernice Manoloff and Arranged by Nick Manoloff. (1935), God Be with You Till We Meet Again, with ukulele chords, guitar chords and special Hawaiian guitar chorus(1935) Cole's Spanish Guitar Method Book (1935)

  6. Ledward Kaapana - Wikipedia

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    Ledward Kaapana (born August 25, 1948) is a Hawaiian musician, best known for playing in the slack key guitar style. In 2011, he received a National Heritage Fellowship, the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. [1] He also plays steel guitar, ukulele, autoharp, and bass guitar, and is a baritone and ...

  7. Ernest Kaʻai - Wikipedia

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    Ernest Kaʻai (1881–1962) was considered by many to have been the [1] foremost ukulele authority of his time and is noted by some as being "Hawaii's Greatest Ukulele Player". Kaʻai, who was born in Honolulu , Hawaii , was said to have been the first musician to play a complete melody with chords.

  8. The Hawaiian steel guitar changed American music. Can ... - AOL

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    Like Akaka, Cortez started playing ukulele at 8 and inherited a love of Hawaiian music from his family. But he is often busy with schoolwork and football practice, and the steel guitar is unlike ...

  9. Tahitian ukulele - Wikipedia

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    The Tahitian ukulele (ʻukarere or Tahitian banjo) is a short-necked fretted lute with eight nylon strings in four doubled courses, native to Tahiti and played in other regions of Polynesia. This variant of the older Hawaiian ukulele is noted by a higher and thinner sound and an open back, [ 1 ] and is often strummed much faster.