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Since the original article about Clinesmith Instruments' Frypan steel guitars, several steel [...]
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The sound of the steel guitar, and it's prominent place in Hawaiian music, are well recognized [...]
First I must apologise for "missing columns" in the last two or three issues of BMG. Various [...]
Hawaiian musicians touring across America in the 1900s had an enormous – and often [...]
A new monthly feature, "On the Playlist," will debut in Steel Trappings on May 1, 2021. [...]
This month we start a new feature called "Spotlight ON!"" [...]
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