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basilh
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From: United Kingdom

posted 23 December 2005 07:13 PM     profile   send email     edit
From Malcolm...
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Hello Basil,
John is correct, it was recorded Dec. 12, 1934. The info you show me supplying (from an album or CD?) must have come from before we had a proof positive recording date, and the circa. March 1935 date was an extrapolation from know dates of issue (not recording dates) at the time.
Hope you're having an excellent holiday!
Malcolm R


So to Reiterate for the benefit of those who want to know..
His FIRST recording on electric Hawaiian guitar was on Dec 12th 1934 ..'My Isle on Hilo Bay' Sol Ho'opi'i and his Novelty Quartet American Brunswick 55079..
In a letter dated 1973 The Count Christian Rosenborg says that the recording was made at 3:30pm on the 12th of December 1934.. This information he got DIRECT from the Brunswick archives as he was privy to them.
see closed topic for more info http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum2/HTML/008323.html

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Keith Cordell
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From: Atlanta

posted 24 December 2005 08:41 PM     profile   send email     edit
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HowardR
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From: N.Y.C.,N.Y.

posted 24 December 2005 10:07 PM     profile   send email     edit
Hmmm, so then, what was the date that Sol first used an electric shaver?
basilh
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From: United Kingdom

posted 25 December 2005 01:35 AM     profile   send email     edit
Not so sure Howard, but when you start shaving we'll make a note of that !! (We know you do your legs, we've seen them enough times LOL)
Could I come over for Maurice's seminar?
Merry Christmas
Baz
HowardR
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From: N.Y.C.,N.Y.

posted 25 December 2005 07:00 AM     profile   send email     edit
I remember my grandfather with his badger brush, lather cake, and cup. He had great vibrato and worked up a good lather. Come to think of it, I bet that's how all of those early Hawaiian players developed their vibrato. I suppose the guys who missed spots and weren't all that clean shaven, were not the better players. Oh well, wax on, wax off.

Yep electric was new fangled & high tech.

They should have sold kits....badger brush, cake, & Tricone.

The C6 seminar should be wonderful. Last year at Jim Heffernan's dobro worksop, a fellow flew in from Ireland to take the seminar. Talk about devotion.

But I've hijacked this enough.....carry on...

I just did

[This message was edited by HowardR on 25 December 2005 at 07:00 AM.]

Rick Collins
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From: Claremont , CA USA

posted 25 December 2005 10:16 AM     profile   send email     edit
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Hmmm, so then, what was the date that Sol first used an electric shaver?
Sol first used an electric shaver in March 1945. Most think that it was December 1944; but that was the date he first used an electric nose-hair trimmer.
basilh
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From: United Kingdom

posted 26 December 2005 01:30 AM     profile   send email     edit
I believe he posed with a Remington but that's because they were his sponsors, he secretly used a Braun but in '45 that wasn't seen as "Politically Correct" especially given his liking for that guitar brand that was also a little suspect re the name's origin
FWIW
David L. Donald
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From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand

posted 26 December 2005 07:16 AM     profile   send email     edit
Howard, so your grand dad had a Badger Brush...
What colors did he paint his badgers back then?

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