| Author |
Topic: Hawaiian words for our favorite instrument |
Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
|
Posted 3 Feb 2019 2:00 pm |
|
| Not sure if this is the place to ask. Are there different Hawaiian words for the electric lap steel and an acoustic steel a la weissenborn? Just curious |
|
|
 |
George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
|
Posted 3 Feb 2019 3:11 pm
|
|
| KIKA KILA to my knowledge. |
|
|
|
Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
|
Posted 3 Feb 2019 3:19 pm
|
|
| Is kika kila uila used for a solid body electric lap steel? |
|
|
|
David Matzenik
From:
Cairns, on the Coral Sea
|
Posted 3 Feb 2019 3:30 pm
|
|
Kika Kila, is of course, an interpretation of the sound of the words - Guitar Steel, without the availability of G R S or T. The characteristic absence of those letters in spoken language among Hawaiians was all but replaced by the time the electric steel guitar was developed. I don't know of any Hawaiian distinction between acoustic and electric that would not be revisionistic.
_________________
Don't go in the water after lunch. You'll get a cramp and drown. - Mother. |
|
|
|
George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
|
Posted 3 Feb 2019 3:32 pm
|
|
| Best for a HAWAIIAN to chime in here....I'm just a frustrated haole boy (actually makuakani)....91 |
|
|
|
Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
|
Posted 4 Feb 2019 11:40 am
|
|
| Da kine steel ! |
|
|
|
Loren Tilley
From:
Maui, Hawaii
|
Posted 4 Feb 2019 9:19 pm
|
|
I never hear anything in Hawaiian to differentiate between acoustic and electric. Most everyone plays electric that I know and they all call it kika kila. Next time I'm playing with someone who would know, I'll ask.
_________________
Rickenbacher B-6 |
|
|
|
Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
|
Posted 7 Feb 2019 9:21 am
|
|
| Mo' bettah? |
|
|
|
Godfrey Arthur
From:
3rd Rock
|
Posted 8 Feb 2019 9:48 am
|
|
| George Keoki Lake wrote: |
| Best for a HAWAIIAN to chime in here....I'm just a frustrated haole boy (actually makuakani)....91 |
Shaka bruddah haole
_________________
ShoBud The Pro 1
YES it's my REAL NAME!
Ezekiel 33:7 |
|
|
|
