Check out the Hula Dancer!

Karel van Bezooijen · Post by **Karel van Bezooijen** » 14 Jun 2009 4:16 am

Almost Surrealistic this!
Showing the versatility of our beloved instrument.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzCh7cvjny8

Don Kona Woods · Post by **Don Kona Woods** » 14 Jun 2009 8:52 am

In addition, that guy is good with his harmonics!!!

Aloha,

Don

George Piburn · Post by **George Piburn** » 14 Jun 2009 9:07 am

That is a sweet lookng Instrument,

Any one got an idea of what Make it is?

MR.Boards

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 14 Jun 2009 11:26 am

George, looks like a European model to me....

Karel van Bezooijen · Post by **Karel van Bezooijen** » 14 Jun 2009 11:33 am

Get a closer view in this clip!
is it the same? Quite an instrument, complete with miniature sailboat!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8au_mImm ... re=related

James Kerr · Post by **James Kerr** » 14 Jun 2009 11:44 am

He gets the Girls too, I guess they can't resist the uniform.

Great stuff.

James.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 14 Jun 2009 6:22 pm

But wait! There's more:

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Joerg Schubert · Post by **Joerg Schubert** » 15 Jun 2009 3:30 am

Hi,
two of the 3 songs linked in this thread are originally done by the Kilima Hawaiians, a band from the Netherlands. In the fifties they were very sucessful in Germany with there songs tranlated to German language. The steel playing on the Kilima Hawaiian records was always excellent IMHO.

Joerg

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 15 Jun 2009 9:36 am

Nice & enjoyable.
Jay Y.

Al Salmon · Post by **Al Salmon** » 15 Jun 2009 5:40 pm

Brilliant harmonics and what a great set up! The hula dancer is an absolute doll.

Thanks for the post.

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 2 Jul 2009 1:11 pm

I have to say I enjoy this Gents playing and listen to it all the time. Just like a hurdy gurdy or an organ grinder. No gimmicks, just real know how! Jay Y.

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 2 Jul 2009 1:27 pm

I was meaning to add this sentence to my last entry. (thanks for the patience & prudence). Just think had Buffalo Bob & Howdy had a Marionette like this sweetheart what might have happened! Jay Y.

Bill Creller · Post by **Bill Creller** » 2 Jul 2009 9:25 pm

The uniform looks like he just stepped off his yacht to do some entertaining

Interesting guitars too.

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 3 Jul 2009 3:40 pm

Pretty darn good for a Carnival act. Maybe I'm just getting old. Love those marionettes.
Jay y.

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 3 Jul 2009 6:03 pm

Somehow this reminds me of the old Katzenjammer Kids comic books.

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 7 Jul 2009 2:04 pm

Good old Hans & Fritz! I have no excuse, I would like to sound like the old Captain, the Inspector & Mama. Rollo was one of my favorites, I wanted to be like him with all his adventures, DO YOU REMEMBER? Jay Y. Night night.

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 7 Jul 2009 9:23 pm

I remember Hans and Fritz and the Captain and Mama, but I'm a little hazy on the rest of it, except of course the hopeless caricature of the native chief with the bone in his nose. Even as a kid, I just thought it was the most bazaar juxtapositions - Germans in the jungle, or on a tropical island, or wherever they were in the tropics.

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 18 Jul 2009 1:30 pm

Just happened to watch it again. We're not the only ones with POT BELLIES! David, you are right on.
Jay Y.

Charley Wilder · Post by **Charley Wilder** » 18 Jul 2009 1:56 pm

It looks like he isn't muting at all with his left hand. Is that a standard "Hawaiian" technique?? New to me!

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 9 Sep 2010 12:24 pm

How about a bump for this one, a few have enjoyed it. Thanks, Jay Y.

David Matzenik · Post by **David Matzenik** » 9 Sep 2010 1:54 pm

David Doggett wrote:Germans in the jungle, or on a tropical island, or wherever they were in the tropics.

David, I always took the setting to be German West Africa or Tanganyika, both colonies were siezed by the British during or shortly after WW1. Of course Katzenjammer sounds Dutch so they could have been Afrikaners too. Forgive me for getting off subject. I have always had a secret admiration for genuine eccentricity. This guy is all of that plus a pretty good performer. It is not easy to jump back and forth between singing and a tight melody arrangement. Is that a painted backdrop behind him doing On the Beach at Waikiki? If so, he gets even more stars from me.

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 6 Oct 2010 1:43 pm

How I enjoy someone else work. Jay Y.

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 6 Oct 2010 6:25 pm

Charley Wilder wrote:It looks like he isn't muting at all with his left hand. Is that a standard "Hawaiian" technique?? New to me!

Not in Germany...he's barring with a knockwurst.....

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 5 May 2011 1:19 pm

I like to listen to this little beauty, at least a couple times a year. Jay Y.

Jay Yuskaitis · Post by **Jay Yuskaitis** » 22 Aug 2013 12:41 pm

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