C.F. Martin Guitar Company
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Fender Guitar company
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kamaka ʻukulele
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Hawaiʻi state archives
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Center for popular music
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library of congress
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center for cultural vibrancy
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ʻiolani palace
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bishop museum
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national archives of Hawaiʻi
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Huliheʻe palace
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Queen Liliʻuokalani trust
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KANILEʻA ʻUKULELE
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C.F. Martin Guitar Company • Fender Guitar company • kamaka ʻukulele • Hawaiʻi state archives • Center for popular music • library of congress • center for cultural vibrancy • ʻiolani palace • bishop museum • national archives of Hawaiʻi • Huliheʻe palace • Queen Liliʻuokalani trust • KANILEʻA ʻUKULELE •
Ma ke kenekulia ʻumikūmāiwa
he kupaianaha nā ʻano loina mele i hānau a hoʻomōhala ʻia aʻela mai loko aʻe o ko Hawaiʻi Aupuni. He ʻike ko Hawaiʻi i nā loina mele o ko ka honua a puni, he ʻike hoʻi i ko Hawaiʻi pono'ī, ʻo ka hoʻokuʻi ʻia aʻela nō ia o ko waho me ko loko, i ʻāwili pū ʻia me nā pahuhopu o nā aliʻi hanohano o ke kulāiwi me nā kāhuli leo leʻa o ka lāhui. I ka makahiki 1880, ua hoʻolaha ʻia aʻela ia mau ʻano loina mele me ke kūlana kiʻekiʻe o ka hiehie, a he kani kū hoʻokahi ka hopena, e kū hōʻailona mau nei he loina mele no Hawaiʻi wale iho nō. A hiki aku i nā makahiki 1920, no loko mai o ia huliau ʻana o ka mele Hawaiʻi i puka mai ai nā pila ʻano nui loa helu ʻekahi o ka laha me ke kaulana, eia hoʻi, i loko o ia makahiki pāanahulu, ua lilo aʻela ʻo ia nā pila mua loa o ia wā uila hou.
Na ka Pacific Strings Museum e hāpai hoʻohanohano nei ia hoʻoilina kū i ke ʻano kīkīkoʻele mikioi a holomua hoʻi, i lilo i mea mamina nui ʻia e ko ka honua a puni, me ka manaʻo e hoʻolauleʻa pono aʻe i ia mau pila a me nā kānaka nāna i hoʻokuʻi mai nā hanauna ma ke ka’ā moku ‘ole o ke kaula pila a me ka leo mele kūpina’i mau.
Hawaiian Kingdom accomplished the work of a great musical prism, synthesizing a global spectrum of string traditions with a royal Hawaiian vision and practice of the musical arts. By 1880 this synthesis would find expression in a sophisticated string ensemble style, uniting a globally sourced diversity of stringed instruments to create a distinctly new Hawaiian sound. By the 1920s this string driven revolution would yield the most iconic instruments of the acoustic era, and within a decade would crystalize to create the world’s first instruments of the modern electric age.
The Pacific String Museum seeks to uplift this Great Pacific legacy of excellence, innovation, and global influence through the celebration of the instruments and people whose music weaves generations together through the enduring strength of song and string.
The 19th century
=SOvereign Strings=
Instruments of ali’i
THE GUITAR OF HRH KALĀKAUA BY JEROME THIBOUVILLE LAMY
THE GUITAR OF HRH LILIʻUOKALANI BY THE C.F. MARTIN GUITAR COMPANY
THE GUITAR OF PRINCE JONAH KŪHIŌ KALANIANAʻOLE BY MANUEL NUNES
Royal Hawaiian Troubadours
JOSEPH APUAKEHAU KEKUKU AND HIS HAWAIIAN STEEL GUITAR
MEKIA ALBERT KEALAKAI AND THE C.F. MARTIN ROYAL HAWAIIAN DREADNOUGHT
FREDDIE THEODORE TAVARES AND THE FENDER STRATOCASTER
=Makers=
Jose do espirito santo
Manuel Nunes
Augusto Dias
SAM Kaialiilii Kamaka
Leo Fender
C.F. Martin
=Ensembles=
The HAWAIIAN QUINTETTE
The ELLIS BROTHERS GLEE CLUB
The KAWAIHAU GLEE CLUB
=String Stories=
“And she (queen liliʻuokalani) was so pleased the first time she heard me sing, and then that got into a habit every time she came there I would sing…and her favorite songs was Waipiʻo, and Hiʻilawe and Kamakani KaIli Aloha. I guess I sang the best in those songs so she always requested me to sing those songs for her.”
-ALICE KUʻULEIALOHAPOʻINAʻOLE KANAKAOLUNA NĀMAKELUA 
“It was a big discovery for me, because that’s the day my research work really got its start, going into the Bishop museum and finding those manuscripts - thanks to kawena and ʻiolani and margaret titcomb, the librarian, and whoever or whatever guided me there.”
- EDDIE LEILANI KAMAE
calcutta
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Madeira
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Honolulu
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San francisco
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London
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Paris
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Juarez
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string stories
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Lahaina
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calcutta
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lāʻie
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Hilo
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calcutta // Madeira // Honolulu // San francisco // London // Paris // Juarez // string stories // Lahaina // calcutta // lāʻie // Hilo //
=Musical migrations=
“I doubt that James thought of himself as a pioneer. It is easy to believe that he was just a young man seizing upon an opportunity to travel abroad while getting paid for doing something he loved. Nonetheless he found himself amongst an elite group of performers educating the world on the musical merits and vision of his tiny island nation.”
-WINI SHAW MATTESON
“IT can be safely said that the ʻukēkē was the first of a series of stringed instruments which the younger generation of Hawaiians have modulated to what is popularly known as the ʻukulele. now we hear of the music of hawaiʻi and its instrument, the ʻukulele, apparently of only a few years duration, growing in popular favor day by day. It is being sung and played by people of nearly every nation in the world.”
-Ernest Kaleihoku Kaai
