Stringed Instruments

	不尋常的樂器

彈奏吉他的夏威夷凱金人(Cajun)
路易斯安那州，1938年

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Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra performing "Myona-Hawaiian Waltz" in 1921

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絃樂器(Stringed Instruments)

大約1915年前後，參與綜藝節目秀及其他表演活動內的夏威夷演奏者，讓夏威夷風格的歌曲風行一時。他們使用夏威夷滑弦吉他來演奏夏威夷音樂，這種樂器外形呈長形，擁有6至8條鋼製滑弦，演奏時得使用金屬環或硬物來撥弦。雖然無法確定滑弦吉他的發明者是誰，但據傳夏威夷一個名叫喬瑟夫 (Joseph Kekuku) 的男學生是第一位發展這種技術的人。他在是邊沿著鐵軌行走，邊利用在軌道上發現的金屬閂彈奏吉他時，發現了這個聲音。

Around 1915, Hawaiian performers on vaudeville and in other shows made Hawaiian-style songs very popular. Hawaiian music was played with a Hawaiian guitar, an instrument with a long sounding board and six to eight steel strings. The instrument is played by touching the strings with a steel bar or some hard object. Although it's not clear who invented the steel guitar style, legend has it that the first person to develop this technique was Hawaiian schoolboy Joseph Kekuku. He discovered the sound while walking along a railroad track strumming his guitar with a metal bolt that he found along the tracks.

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CREDIT: Lee, Russell, photographer. "Cajun Hawaiian guitar player, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana." October 1938. America, Great Depression to World War II: Black-and-White Photographs, FSA-OWI, 1935-1945, Library of Congress.
AUDIO CREDIT: Morgan, Friedland, music; Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra, performed. "Myona-Hawaiian Waltz." 1921. Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies, Library of Congress.