Ohau (sp?) steel guitar sheet music

Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 25 Sep 2001 6:59 pm

Just ran across some old sheet music for steel guitar. Anyone on the Forum, collecting this kind of stuff?

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 26 Sep 2001 11:43 am

I do...

I have scads of Oahu and Calumet (with "hawaiian guitar chorus") sheets I started collecting back in the 80's

some other gems, such as a 1919 "Peterson method for playing guitar in the Hawaiian manner with steel" Book

and several Alkire Technic books for the E-Harp system

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 26 Sep 2001 12:14 pm

Besides some Oahu music I have some by "Bronson". Has anyone heard of this line of Hawaiian music?
Erv

Mark Tomeo · Post by **Mark Tomeo** » 5 Oct 2001 5:49 am

DVA:
You would!
I, too have a binder full of Oahu music as well as a fairly large set of Gibson Mastertone System for Steel Guitar sheet music, which is illustrated with the most amazing pictures - steel guitar and mandolin orchestras from the 1930s, crazy characters playing lap steels, and what looks like a 100+ piece steel guitar dobro marching band all wearing uniforms. Can you imagine what that must've sounded like?
DVA, I've just gotta meet you some time. We only live about two hours apart and I hope you won't take this the wrong way, but we sound like twin sons of different mothers.
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Bruce Clarke · Post by **Bruce Clarke** » 9 Oct 2001 1:48 pm

My collection is small, mostly from the 1940's, but it includes a nice item from the July - August 1948 issue of "Fretted Instrument news." This is an arrangement by Alvino Rey of his own composition, "Moonlit Mood", six string E9th tuning, 3 note slants, palm harmonics on chords, the lot, all written in standard notation. I have no recollection of how I came by this mag. on this side of the Atlantic, in those days there was a monthly mag in the U.K. called BMG (Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar) which had a Hawaiian section, I wonder whether copies of this still survive.