Del Ray Grace
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Toledo, Ohio, USA
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Posted 7 Aug 2018 5:28 am |
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Sacred Steel Music & History Month Honors...
Lorenzo L. Harrison
We Celebrate All Month!!
Lorenzo L. Harrison is the father of the Jewell Dominion’s Hawaiian steel guitar music tradition. Born on February 11, 1925 in Ocala, Florida to Frank and Henrietta Harrison. His desire as a young man was to use his talent playing music for the Lord.
Lorenzo L. Harrison designed the Lorenzo’s Harp in the mid to late 1970’s. The harp is a gutted-out Hammond M3 Organ fully functional with Fender amplification and JBL speakers.
He replaced the ivory keys with a custom made eight string Sho-Bud lap steel guitar. Lorenzo’s trademark Morley rotating wah pedal, is built into the lower part of the harp along with many other additions. The builders of this ingenious creation is Amos Arthur, Pat Johnson, and Bud Osborne of Arthur Music located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Lorenzo L. Harrison established the steel guitar as the lead and out front instrument in the church and thirty years after his death, his musical influence can still be heard within the walls of the Jewell Dominion churches and abroad. His legacy will forever remain as a landmark of greatness in the Grand Old Church of the Living God.Click link below...
https://youtu.be/I1vxqfFFP_I
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