Oahu Publishing Square Neck Slide Guitar Cleveland, Ohio USA
by Debbie Lynn
December 14 2024
December 14 2024
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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 various cities in the U.S., offering music lessons and selling 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 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. 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 can be tuned to various "open" tunings.
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. 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 - D A D F# A D and Open G - D G D G B D. The Hawaiian Slide Guitar was soon incorporated in country, blues, rock, pop, African, and Indian music.
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