Oahu Publishing Square Neck Slide Guitar Cleveland, Ohio USA
By Debbie Lynn
The Oahu Music Company was an education program in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s that was intended to teach music to
students by teaching them Hawaiian Slide-guitar, which was an enormously popular form of music during the early twentieth
century. The Oahu Music Company operated across most U.S. cities, offering music lessons and Oahu-brand instruments.
The Oahu Music Company was started in 1926 in Flint, Michigan by Harry G. Stanley and his half-brother George Bronson. During the
Great Depression Oahu Music fared well due to the low price of their guitars at $7 which included the case, steel-bar, finger-picks,
nut adapter and lessons.
The companies which have been reported to have made Oahu guitars are Regal, Kay, and Harmony.
The "high action" nut came supplied with an aluminum adapter, which would fit over the top of the nut, to aid in playing the
guitar using a slide action steel bar.
The steel guitar differs from the standard guitar by the way in which it is played; the guitar is held in the lap and played with
a "steel" bar which is pressed against the strings instead of the fingers pressing the strings against the frets. The steel
guitar is customarily tuned to various "open" tunings.
Open D and Open G were popular "slack" tunings, which means the tuning of strings are tuned below standard tuning. Standard
tuning is E – A – D – G – B – E, and Open D is D – A – D – F# – A – D, and Open G is D – G – D – G – B – D.
It is said that the Steel Guitar was invented by a Hawaiian schoolchild who discovered the sound one day while walking along
train tracks, he stopped and picked up a bolt by the side of the tracks and slid it across the strings of the guitar he was
carrying. Fascinated by the sound he taught himself to play using the guitar as a Slide Guitar.
The Hawaiian Slide Guitar was soon incorporated in country, blues, rock, pop, African, and Indian music.
The Oahu Publishing Co of Cleveland, Ohio USA put out a 6-string three-fourths size, square neck parlor acoustic guitar. This
guitar is a tobacco sunburst slide guitar with high action to accommodate playing the instrument with a steel bar.
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