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As for the copedent, David, it's here :- http://www.waikiki-islanders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/012073.html

[This message was edited by basilh on 10 May 2006 at 07:22 AM.]

I taught her to play in TWO weeks back in 1963.. Her dad taught her the Ukulele and I just adapted what she knew to work on the guitar. She's a Natural, same as me, we didn't ever have formal tuition, just played it as we heard it ..
And this is info for Howard Tate Maybe this picture shows ANOTHER reason why I tend to sit at the 24th fret !!

[This message was edited by basilh on 10 May 2006 at 08:45 AM.]

that was just great, beautiful inventive melody lines and arpegggios and also lovely backing!

someway through the tune you change tone and get into a lovely passage emulating a foot pedal. did you switch in any special effect? i was once looking for that automated effect and found it in the Line6 Delay green stomp box, which i now own. to my knowledge, no one else does it. did you use an automated effect?

i was in the UK this past week, from singapore en route to los angeles, to see me dad and mum and other wild animals but too rushed to think about a trip to your neck of the woods.

How did the Britons at the church fund raiser take to the steel guitar playing and Hawaiian music? Do the older people enjoy it more because of its past popularity? Do the young people express interest when they hear it?

The Popularity of Hawaiian Music in the Birmingham area was such that at any given time in the 40's 50' and 60's there were at least half a dozen groups registered with the Musicians Union and the Club magazines.
To this day, the people of the UK have a liking for Hawaiian Music, mainly because of the touring of Felix Mendelssohn and his Hawaiian Serenaders.

Pats Father formed the Waikiki Islanders in 1937-38 and since his premature death at 48 years of age, we have kept on the tradition, both singly and collectively.
The older people still remember the 'Hay days" whilst the younger generation are not oblivious to the sound of the Hawaiian Guitar. You only have to listen to the amount of its use in advertising to know the popular perception of Paradise associated with the 'Signature Sound' of the Islands. It seems a pity that the Islands themselves don't seem to know this. (I know the reason for the swing in popularity to the 'Slack Key guitar' but that's another story and one that I'm serialising in Aloha Dream at the moment.

As for charity work, the man I work as MD for (Bob Brolly) last year raised over $200.000 for breast cancer research and he actually got his MBE (Queen's award) for his charity work. When not playing for Bob at charity events, Pat and I do the same thing on a much more modest scale, but still feel that it's significant. The Church Fundraiser we played for where the videos come from, raise over $2000 and most of our functions do that type of figure.

Regarding the general love for Hawaiianna in the UK, If it wasn't for the events of January 17th1893 there would be a different flag flying over the Iolani Palace today.. we have ALWAYS had an affinity for the Sandwich Islands..!Even if Cooke wasn't very popular.
Baz

[This message was edited by basilh on 10 May 2006 at 12:27 PM.]

In the same way that US masters of exotic music as Martin Denny and Les Baxter transported their listeners to mysterious tropical islands and ancient civilizations, Birmingham born Basil Henriques and his Waikiki Islanders managed to re-create a similar mirage on these two albums from the EMI Studio 2 series. Henriques destination was Hawaii, the unmistakable sound of which he expertly summoned up from the strings of his steel guitar, an instrument that was perfectly adapted to capture the mood and romance of the South Seas - with its golden beaches, palm trees and dramatic burning sunsets - and transport it into thousands of suburban homes across the UK. Basil Henriques was, for many mood music fans, the main supplier of instant sunshine.

Edwin Pouncey

Special thanks to Rob Owen
Design by EMI Art Department
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Baz

[This message was edited by basilh on 10 May 2006 at 12:33 PM.]

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A clip of Pat's dad playing Ten Tiny Toes.. Click Here

[This message was edited by basilh on 10 May 2006 at 01:07 PM.]

- its a great thing you're doing for steel guitar music in the UK...and more power to your elbow. i believe the time may be right for a real revival. one of these days i predict we may see a young steel guitarist in "top of the pops"...of course, this is horse-feathers for now. i have met many people who love the sound of steel guitar but have not the faintest idea what it is

- to your UK names i could add kealoha life. and was not wout steenhuis actually based out of the UK, somewhere in hampshire? you already must know of the yearly pedal steel guitar festival in newton, hants.

- there is nothing like steel guitar to whisk away those milk-of-magnesia UK winter mornings and evenings.

- regarding the cost of lap steel guitars in the UK, i have also, on occasion, paraded the london shops ...and been gob-smacked by the prices of the few steel guitars i saw

i have also an e-mail for you on another subject...

Thanks for the nice overview. Keep up your good work, ole chap.

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Emmons D10
Emmons D12

Do you by any chance have a video of Blue Hawaii? I have been hunting an E9 version as I had a request at the club I play at. You would not believe how hard it seems to be to find that one.

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Kay, do you know what guitar Wout played? I do not recognise the brand at all.

Baz, did you ever meet Wout?

I enjoyed that clip of Pat's dad playing Ten Tiny Toes.

Not a Hawaiian song, but definitely a Hawaiian flavor.

I could listen to more of him.

William Cox and the Waikiki Islanders pre 1939

[This message was edited by basilh on 14 May 2006 at 06:12 PM.]