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| catguy |
Posted - 05/12/2009 : 12:03:07 PM
So, I guess you are all wondering what a guy from northern Alberta, Canada, is doing on a site pertaining to Hawaiian culture and especilly music. Simple, when i was young, and growing up back in Ontario, my mom and dad thaught i shoule try my hand at guitar lessons. Well, one thing led to another, and I found myself taking what was termed at the time (middle 1950's) Hawaiian Guitar lessons. All I ever had was an accoustic guitar with a steel nut added on top of the plastic one that was already in place, one thumb pick and two finger picks. Somewhere along the way I kind of got away from that guitar sound but i did retain much of the music therory. In later years I played rhythm guitar in a country rock band and I even tried my hand at playing 5 string banjo. Of late I have started with the blues genre. Until this past weekend, while searching JamPlay.com, I came across Mark Nelson teaching (something new to me) Slack Key Guitar. Words just can't express the feeling I got when I heard this man play that Taylor, rigtht then and there, I knew what style of music I have been wanting to learn all these years. Northern Alberta, will never be the same again :o). Since then I have found much reading and videos on the internet pertaining to this wonderful new sound.
Thank you, Mahalo nui loa, for reading my little blurb, no, I don't speak Hawaiian, I've never been out of Canada, guess maybe I will have to take a visit to Hawaii (yes I do know how to pronounce it :o)
Gordon Steeves |
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| alika207 |
Posted - 09/03/2009 : 11:50:40 AM
Aloha nui! Just wanted to welcome you to "the patch" as we sometimes call it. Yes, you do need to visit Hawai'i Nei if you haven't already; it's amazing! I'm going to the Big Island in January btw... yay! |
| Karl Monetti |
Posted - 08/09/2009 : 10:03:39 AM
Yeah, Ben, the dogs are actually stuffed! |
| noeau |
Posted - 08/08/2009 : 09:25:33 AM
I was just looking at Mika eleʻs post and thought Karl could join Led with his paper bag. But gloves on both hands is quite a challenge. Hey nice house Karl |
| Ben |
Posted - 08/07/2009 : 08:50:50 AM
I agree with Andy, Karl. Very impressive indeed! What other hidden talents have you? The stained glass is great. And I gotta tell ya, I like your house better with the green surrounding it than with the white; just my southern latitude bias, I guess. I like the dogs, too. You didn't design or build them yourself did you? |
| wdf |
Posted - 08/06/2009 : 7:12:56 PM
Hey Karl,
I treasure the times that you and Susan and Sheila and I spent together.
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| Admin |
Posted - 08/06/2009 : 5:29:36 PM
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Originally posted by Karl Monetti
No, the cabin was not built from a kit. It was, like everything I build, a product of my imagination. Drew it on paper, cut the logs from my own land, hauled them with my 1952 tractor, put them up my myself with the help of a pulley attached to the tree I left in the center of the house just for that purpose.
Very impressive, Karl!!! |
| Karl Monetti |
Posted - 08/06/2009 : 10:33:22 AM
Wanda,
Just getting back to this thread. No, the cabin was not built from a kit. It was, like everything I build, a product of my imagination. Drew it on paper, cut the logs from my own land, hauled them with my 1952 tractor, put them up my myself with the help of a pulley attached to the tree I left in the center of the house just for that purpose. Picture of interior is enclosed. That tree is still rooted, but dead, of course, It helps hold up the loft, but other wise is only a conversation piece.
When I built it, in 1977, there was not even a road to it, 4 miles to the nearest road, the only access by riverboat.. I classified it as "Brush" living. "Bush" is real wilderness, brush you can get there from here but have no electricity (unless yo make your own with a generator, wind, solar, etc.), "Weeds", my current designation, means you can actually drive there on a reasonably safe road, are at least 20 miles from town, yet have electricity from the grid, and "Town" is all the rest of the world.
shows it is not all snow up here in alaska :}
the front door with triple pane stained glass window I designed
looks from the kitchen to living room
the tree as part of the kitchen
the rest of the loft area held up by the tree
the tree inside the house mentioned in the last post
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| wcerto |
Posted - 06/12/2009 : 08:23:42 AM
Nah, Karl, your butt don't look fat. But that shore is one purdy abode. They did not have log cabins like that down in W. Va. Well, only when Jay Rockfeller was Governor. That is like a dream house for me, very fine!!!! Cept for the snow. Cleveland gets way too much of that and thus I have had my fill. Was the home built from one of those kits? |
| Karl Monetti |
Posted - 06/12/2009 : 07:14:41 AM
Gordon,
Aloha from North Pole. (Be good, I have a direct line with SAnta, having cared for his reindeer for decades). Hope you have better luck finding like minded players in Alberta than i did here. Actually I have discovered several transplanted Hawaiians to play music with, as well as a few pickers I have converted.
Mila'ele, glad you remembered me! (Hey, do those mittens make my butt look fat?) |
| Mika ele |
Posted - 05/12/2009 : 1:56:51 PM
You'll be glad to know that you are not the farthest north. Our longtime resident mushing moose master retired from messing with manimals and is now muddling with Medusas. He says that slack key sounds especially good in an igloo.
Reigning from North Pole, Alaska is the BIG MAN, Karl Monetti.
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| Hookani |
Posted - 05/12/2009 : 1:05:52 PM
Aloha Gordon and welcome to the Taropatch. You'll find a lot of good info on all things concerning Hawaiian music. Read up and ask questions, the people here are a great bunch and very sharing. Welcome again.
Aloha,
Ho'okani |
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