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Darrell Criswell
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Posted 31 May 2017 8:12 am |
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| Just saw American Epic last night on PBS with an excellent segment that shows both use steel and pedal steel in different forms of music (King Sunny Ade, Hank Williams, Pink Floyd, Sol Hoopii, Sun House). The show says that Joseph Kekuku was the inventor of the steel guitar and there is a statue in Hawaii honoring him. The show has the family of Kekuku talking about him. Excellent footage. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 31 May 2017 9:06 am
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I saw that much of it too and recorded the rest. It included a segue from Native Americans to the other native people in Hawaii.
Catch it on the rerun if you can, would be of interest to all steelers. |
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Don Aycock
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Hollister, FL
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Posted 1 Jun 2017 4:46 am Joseph Kekuku
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I went to the Polynesian Cultural Center on the Hawaiian island of Oahu recently and saw his statue and tribute plaque.
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Dieter Stoll
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Germany
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Posted 1 Jun 2017 11:59 pm
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| Thanks much for the heads up. Not easy to watch that particular PBS show here in Germany but it can be done. Proxy's the name of the game. |
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Stefan Robertson
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Hertfordshire, UK
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Posted 1 Aug 2017 7:00 am
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Don't know how true this is.
Joseph Kekuku inventor of the "Hawaiian Steel Guitar".
To my knowledge that is blatantly incorrect.
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Darrell Criswell
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2017 7:32 am
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| In my experience there is rarely only one person that "invents" anything, usually there are other people at the same time that develop almost the same thing. This is not to detract from the people named with the invention. There is even someone people think may have flown an airplane before the Wright brothers, probably not but someone else was very close and working on the same thing. |
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Ian Worley
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Sacramento, CA
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Posted 1 Aug 2017 12:06 pm
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| Stefan Robertson wrote: |
| ...To my knowledge that is blatantly incorrect. |
Not sure what the point is in saying something like that in such strong terms without also explaining what you believe is correct and why. Please enlighten us. |
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