Cyril Pahinui, Crown Prince Of Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar, Dies At 68
There’s no music in the world quite like Hawaii’s slack-key guitar. This unlikely marriage of the Spanish guitar with and Polynesia’s rippling rhythms gets its name from the islanders’ habit of loosening – “slackening” – the guitar strings to fit the player’s voice, leading to a gentler, plumper sound and tunings unlike anywhere else in the world.
