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Topic: Is this Sol? |
Andy Volk
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Posted 11 Feb 2020 1:31 pm |
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Pick posted on FB by Gregg Miner.
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Cartwright Thompson
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Posted 11 Feb 2020 2:28 pm
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| Hell yeah |
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David Ball
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North Carolina High Country
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Posted 11 Feb 2020 3:00 pm
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That guitar Sol is playing appears to be extra deep--is that just an illusion because of the camera angle?
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Dave Mayes
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Posted 11 Feb 2020 3:15 pm
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| Sol times two! Sol Hoopii center and Sol K. Bright on the left! |
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Nic Neufeld
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Posted 11 Feb 2020 5:17 pm
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Not to distract from the "main course" but a few highlights from the younger Sol...
Honolulu How Do You Do (such lovely tricone playing!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XI_BEfDhjs
Then, two legends playing his composition "Sophisticated Hula" (Billy Hew Len mostly on lead on this tune, with Barney Isaacs backing and playing the B section):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOfKquW4Llg
Great pic!
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 11 Feb 2020 9:17 pm
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That photograph is almost certainly a promotional movie still, although not a scene. Candidates would be Bird of Paradise 1931 staring Dolores Del Rio, or Flirtation Walk 1934 staring Dick Powell.
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Chris Clem
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California, USA
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Norman Markowitz
From:
Santa Cruz, California
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Posted 12 Feb 2020 11:30 am
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| How about the harp guitar? I don't know of it ever being associated with Hawaiian music. |
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Andy Volk
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Posted 12 Feb 2020 1:19 pm
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Great find, Chris! Thanks.
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Nic Neufeld
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Posted 12 Feb 2020 2:21 pm
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| Norman Markowitz wrote: |
| How about the harp guitar? I don't know of it ever being associated with Hawaiian music. |
I don't know too much about it myself but I've seen it here and there.
Here's Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians:
And I read some about Chris Knutsen who made a lot of Hawaiian and harp guitars. I think harp guitars happened to be having a moment of popularity around the same time as Hawaiian guitar in the 1910s, perhaps.
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 12 Feb 2020 4:37 pm
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Very cool stuff! I agree that Sol's Tricone looks substantially deeper, in the still and the movie clip.
It would not surprise me at all if the Dopyeras were giving him custom built special instruments or prototypes, heck, the Tricone could have been called the Sol Hoopii model |
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 12 Feb 2020 7:10 pm
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Having seen several musical eras come and go myself, that period between the advent of the National Tricone and Rickenbacher Frying Pan must have seemed ever so brief to those who witnessed it.
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