" – Peu importe d’où l’on vient. Il n’y a pas de tonique. Le thème et son développement ne sont qu’un mirage…
Il y a une musique toujours inattendue.
– Et les dissonances ?
– Dieu les a créées, elles aussi…"
Jaume Cabré - "Voyage d'hiver" - 2014

”La terre, il se pourrait bien après tout que ce soit une espèce
de merveilleux petit appareil enregistreur, plaçé là par on ne sait qui,
pour capter tous les bruits qui circulent mystérieusement dans l’Univers.”
Pierre Reverdy - ”En vrac” - 1929

”J’entends tous les bruits de la terre grâce à mes oreilles et mes nerfs de cristal
dans lesquels circulent le feu du ciel et celui des volcans.”
Michel Leiris - ”Le point cardinal” - 1927

"L'écoute, c'est l'ombre de la composition"
Pascal Dusapin - 2008

"Go, go, go! ... Go! go! ..."
John Lee Hooker"

 

16/11/2012

Plectrophonic Orchestra

In 1941, Letritia Kandle (1915 - 2010), former member of the Kohala Girls, became the featured soloist of the 50-piece ‘Chicago Plectrophonic Orchestra,’ which featured Letritia playing classical numbers such as “Blue Danube Waltz” as well as other pop and Hawaiian numbers.  When her mentor, conductor Jack Lundin, passed away in 1943, Letritia took over as conductor of the Orchestra.


Letritia Kandle, a serious Hawaiian guitar player, pioneered the electrified slide guitar in the 1930's.
She asked her father to buy a harp guitar and help her to convert it to a Hawaiian raised-nut instrument with a standard neck and a 12-string neck capable of different tunings. Then she had a vision for a brand new electrified instrument with 24 strings: the "Grand Letar". This instrument demonstrated in 1937 in trade conventions was able to generate lights' effects.
Letritia played different radio programs as NBC.


 And in 1937, she build a more portable  instrument, the "Small Letar".

 More informations on Vintage Guitar Magazine (nov. 2012) and Muleskinner blog.

& still looking for recordings of this artist and her instrument, as well of the Chicago Plectrophonic Orchestra!

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