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Topic: How many of you play the old Hawaiian marches? |
Levi Gemmell
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New Zealand
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Posted 17 Jan 2018 8:50 pm |
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Down thru the years, the Standards remain, but standards do change. For all I know, playing certain styles has reached its nadir. How many of you non-pedallers still play the old Hawaiian marches? (Hawaiian Hotel, Hilo, Honolulu, Kohala, etc.) If you play them, what tunings do you use for each one?
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Kirk Francis
From:
Laupahoehoe
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Posted 18 Jan 2018 8:34 am the old marches.
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don't overlook KA UA LOKU, which certainly qualifies musically as a hawaiian march. we owe the style to henry berger, even if he didn't write all of them.
to my old ears they sound best played aggressively on a weiss or tricone in taro patch (AKA: low G) tuning: D B G D G D -- the extra bass strings help with the old OOM-pah! |
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David M Brown
From:
California, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2018 8:42 am
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Yes, I'll play those old marches!
A low bass for the older versions, A6 for the more modern versions. Either way I have A C# E on the top 3 strings. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2018 9:05 am
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David,
So do I.
The original Hawaiian tuning was an A tuning, either high or low bass. 
Erv |
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Sebastian Müller
From:
Berlin / Germany
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Posted 18 Jan 2018 11:48 am
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We do love Hawaiian marches in our band, these are the tunes everybody is pretty surprised to hear from us, they always think Hawaiian music has to be slow and smooth.
Hilo March and Kohala March in HiBass A
Indiana March in C#min
We always tell the Henry Berger story, but I guess marches and waltzes where just the hip things at that time, they were around before Henry Berger.
Any thoughts?
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 3 Jun 2018 9:19 am
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I sat down and worked out Kohala March recently. Definitely want to learn the big three (Kohala, Hilo, Honolulu...not familiar with Hawaiian Hotel March and there's also Sol's Indiana March, even if not Hawaiian per se). However, I ended up learning it in C6 out of convenience. Maybe not optimal but it works and it lives on my guitars! 
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Loren Tilley
From:
Maui, Hawaii
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Posted 4 Jun 2018 9:32 am
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I play them a lot at home, but not so much outside of that. I uses A6.
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 4 Jun 2018 10:35 am
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Personally, I admire the technique to play them well, but that corner of the Hawaiian musical universe just doesn't appeal to me. Maybe I've spent so much of my life digging swing-based music that the feel of those kinds of tunes just feels plodding and uninteresting to me. Other strict-tempo genres like Celtic music does appeal so go figure.
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Peter Funk
From:
Germany
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Posted 28 Oct 2018 8:24 am
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Though not on Steel Guitar this time, I play "Kohala March" on a standard resonator guitar (made by https://www.peters-resonators.de) using a slide:
KOHALA MARCH
With our band, I use a Dobro tuned to High-G ... |
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