Slack key and `ukulele master Ledward Kaapana was touring around NorCal during October and staying with us. I got him into the studio for some tracks and came up with this clip of "Nani Ka`ala"
Led is playing his spectacular custom tenor by Chuck Moore http://www.moorebettahukes.com/ and I'm using my Composite Acoustics OX Raw tuned to F taropatch - open G tuned down a whole step to C F C F A C. I'm using Schoeps CMC641s on each instrument, through an RME UFX and into REAPER. I shot video using a pair of Panasonic Lumix GH4s and a Lumix LX100. I used Edius for the video editing.
Slack key and `ukulele master Ledward Kaapana was touring around NorCal during October and staying with us. I got him into the studio for some tracks and came up with this clip of "Nani Ka`ala"
Led is playing his spectacular custom tenor by Chuck Moore http://www.moorebettahukes.com/ and I'm using my Composite Acoustics OX Raw tuned to F taropatch - open G tuned down a whole step to C F C F A C. I'm using Schoeps CMC641s on each instrument, through an RME UFX and into REAPER. I shot video using a pair of Panasonic Lumix GH4s and a Lumix LX100. I used Edius for the video editing.
Fran
I enjoyed that Fran, I kept watching you play and I finally realized you had a particular tuning. Then I scrutinized your post a little more and I see what you did.
I enjoyed that Fran, I kept watching you play and I finally realized you had a particular tuning. Then I scrutinized your post a little more and I see what you did.
Thank you, that was different and I liked it.
Glad you enjoyed it. Altered tunings are a basic feature of slack key, and slack key has been a part of Hawaiian music since the 1830s.
Slack key and `ukulele master Ledward Kaapana was touring around NorCal during October and staying with us. I got him into the studio for some tracks and came up with this clip of "Nani Ka`ala"
Fran
You all make it look effortless....this was truly very, very well done and enjoyable.
Yeah, it's one amazing instrument. When it first arrived I'd never heard of the maker, and I figured it was too fancy to really be a great player's instrument. Turned out I was totally wrong, and Led has made that little beauty his number one uke ever since.
Chuck Moore, the builder, lives in a neighborhood near Kalapana where Led grew up. This area of the Big Island of Hawai`i has been ravaged by volcano flows since 1990 or so but it's so beautiful that people hang on where they can. http://www.moorebettahukes.com/MYLIFE.html