| 1890's |
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- Playing guitars with metal utensils becomes popular in Hawaii
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| 1900's |
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| 1910's |
- 1915 Pan-American Pacific Exposition in San Francisco brings
Hawaiian sounds to Mainland US
- Tin Pan Alley becomes enamored with things "Hawaiian"
- "Hapa Haole" music
- Fantasies of scantily clad "nut brown gals"...
a "civilized" white guy's wet dream...
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| 1920's |
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| 1930's |
- Electric amplification
- Radio
- Musical "cross-pollenation"- the steel "crosses
over"
- Blues Slide Guitar
- "Hillbilly"
- Singing Cowboys
- Door-to-door and mail order Hawaiian Guitar sales
- New tunings/More Strings
- Western Swing
- Leon Mc Aulliffe - "Steel Guitar Rag"
- 1939 Gibson Electraharp Pedal Guitar
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| 1940's |
- Leo Fender
- Alvino Rey
- Pete Kirby - "Bashful Brother Oswald"
- Don Helms
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| 1950's |
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- Jerry Byrd
- Speedy West
- The Paradigm Shift: "Slowly"
by Webb Pierce with Bud Isaacs
- Paul Bigsby
- Jimmy Day
- Buddy Emmons
- Ray Price
- Sho-Bud Guitars
- Josh "Buck" Graves
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| 1960's |
- Ralph Mooney
- Tom Brumley
- "Night Life"
- Emmons Guitar Co.
- Emmons' "Steel Guitar Jazz" Album
- Buddy Charlton
- Alvino Rey Revisited
- Curley Chalker
- Lloyd Green
- Pete Drake
- MSA Micro Inc. Steel Guitars
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| 1970's |
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| 1980's |
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| 1990's |
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| 2000 & Beyond |
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