Herbert Hanawahine

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Wally Pfeifer
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Herbert Hanawahine

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Herbert Hanawahine passed Oct 30, 2020 :cry:
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Brad Bechtel
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My condolences to his family and friends.
Brad’s Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
Wally Pfeifer
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Brad,-that is one of the best CDs I own in my vast collection of CDs, LPs, 45s,78s etc.
We have lost a good friend :cry: :cry:
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I'm sorry to hear this......
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Don Kona Woods
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Herbert Hanawahine is a Hawaiian Treasure. He perpetuated the old style of playing Hawaiian Steel Guitar to promote traditional Hawaiian music. His harmonics were the best. This was best displayed when he played Whispering Lullaby.
He will be greatly missed.