Old 11-04-2017, 09:22 AM   #1
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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.

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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.

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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.
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Old 11-08-2017, 11:45 AM   #3
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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.

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Old 11-13-2017, 09:17 AM   #4
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You all make it look effortless....this was truly very, very well done and enjoyable.


nice!
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The ukelele sounds so fine...
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Old 11-15-2017, 10:30 AM   #6
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You all make it look effortless....this was truly very, very well done and enjoyable.


nice!
Thanks, that other guy has been killing it since he was a little kid, I'm just really lucky to have made friends with him.

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The ukelele sounds so fine...
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

You can check out more of Chuck's work here http://www.moorebettahukes.com/sold.html and here: http://www.moorebettahukes.com/GALLERY-2.html

When Chuck finishes a uke and mentions its availability on Facebook it's usually sold within hours.

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Thanks for the links, Fran.
This man is an artist, really.
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I enjoyed listening a lot - very nice performance
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nice!
100% agree!!!!
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I enjoyed that. You guys play so effortlessly. Sounded fantastic in my headphones.

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I enjoyed that. You guys play so effortlessly. Sounded fantastic in my headphones.

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Thanks everyone for listening and for your kind comments.

I've had a lot of fun capturing clips with Ledward. They're all collected in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnr7...jNm79hjuZ9PrPt

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I enjoy it. I also watched your other videos. Really cool stuff! Thank you for sharing
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I enjoy it. I also watched your other videos. Really cool stuff! Thank you for sharing
After playing a few of your YouTube clips I'm ready to hire you to shoot my videos (grin)! Sweet arrangements and performance too.

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