Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

Kawika Pangelinan has become a skilled and self-taught craftsman of numerous types of Hawaiian musical instruments.

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / [email protected] Hawaiians made ukeke from hardwoods such as kau­ila and ulei. Ukeke maker Mahi La Pierre has been experimenting with other types of wood. Select an option ...

Its frisky four strings are the sound of Elvis’s ‘Blue Hawaii,’ of Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips and lately, beyond all reason, of a popular ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ cover. Above all, the humble ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - These aren’t ordinary string instruments. New instruments that were recently brought to Hawaii are made of fiber from flax plants. Belgium-based luthier Tim Duerinck ...

Oct. 1—In the final decades of the Hawaiian monarchy, and for a decade or two afterward, the violin, viola, cello, zither, autoharp and Western flute were integral parts of Hawaiian music. In the ...