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Instructional Methods for Hawaiian Guitar
Eddie Alkire (1907-1981)
Eddie Alkire’s Acoustic Guitar, “Sol,” ca. 1920
Sheet Music for “Bells of Hawaii” and “Paradise of Love”
First Hawaiian Conservatory and Eddie Alkire Instructional Methods for “Aloha ‘Oe,” 1926 and 1949
Two Photographs of Student EHarp Ensembles, ca. 1955
INVENTION
Sketches and Patent for Alkire’s EHarp, 1937 and 1950
Epiphone Deluxe Floor Model EHarp, ca. 1948
Epiphone Lap Model EHarp, ca. 1949
Letritia Kandle (1915-2010)
August Gerhard Almcrantz Double Neck Guitar, ca. 1895 (modified 1931)
Grand Letar, 1937
National “Small Letar” Electric Hawaiian Steel Guitar, ca. 1940s
Harlin Brother’s Kalina Multi Kord Steel Guitar, ca. 1947
Photographs of the Chicago Plectrophonic Orchestra, 1941 and 1946
Correspondence between Letritia Kandle and Eddie Alkire, 1944
HISTORIC STEEL GUITARS
Eddie Alkire’s Acoustic Guitar, “Sol,” ca. 1920
Epiphone Lap Model EHarp, ca. 1949
Epiphone Deluxe Floor Model EHarp, ca. 1948
August Gerhard Almcrantz Double Neck Guitar, ca. 1895 (modified 1931)
Grand Letar, 1937
National “Small Letar” Electric Hawaiian Steel Guitar, ca. 1940s
Harlin Brother’s Kalina Multi Kord Steel Guitar, ca. 1947
RECORDINGS
BBC documentary on Joseph Kekuku
“Lanihuli, My Home in Lanihuli”
“E Pele E”
“Eddie Alkire’s Modern Hawaiians”
Claude Brownell on EHarp
“Chile Blues”
Interlude for Whiteman’s radio
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