{"id":25908,"date":"2023-05-04T13:49:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillandmovingcenter.com\/?p=25908"},"modified":"2023-05-04T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T01:05:52","slug":"letter-from-the-director-for-the-love-of-music-vol-119-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillandmovingcenter.com\/ja\/2023\/05\/letter-from-the-director-for-the-love-of-music-vol-119-may-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the Director: For the Love of Music Vol. 119, May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-30px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;-6px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;0vw||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;10px||||false|false&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;off&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; max_width=&#8221;1450px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_margin_phone=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; custom_margin_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||0px|||&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;0px||||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/stillandmovingcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banner_life_center2-1.jpg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;21&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; custom_padding_last_edited=&#8221;on|tablet&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Header&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_color=&#8221;#f9f6f5&#8243; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/stillandmovingcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/trans-shiva.png&#8221; background_size=&#8221;contain&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_right&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;-43px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;4px|||||&#8221; custom_padding_tablet=&#8221;60px||||false|false&#8221; custom_padding_phone=&#8221;&#8221; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;off&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">I usually count on my plane rides between the continental US and Hawai\u2019i as a time to power through 5 hours of work. Taking my seat next to Ki-Lin Reece, I found myself dropping that plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Thank goodness!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"946944\" height=\"337\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/3796b16d-d169-fa46-1dbf-7536c468606e.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/3796b16d-d169-fa46-1dbf-7536c468606e.png\" width=\"270\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">As I listened to my seat partner\u2019s background and current work, I simply couldn\u2019t bear to open my laptop. I kept wanting to hear more. Internally, I shook my head in wonder: Here\u2019s this guy, originally from Berkeley, California, who got his kicks as a kid taking guitars apart. How is it that he is now devotedly putting together not just broken ukuleles, but also the scattered fragments of Hawaiian musical history? Who is this man who loves Hawaiian music so much?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Ki-Lin Reece is a luthier. Luthiers create and repair stringed instruments &#8211; such as lutes! When Ki-Lin (pronounced Kai-Lin) arrived on the islands ready to repair broken instruments and build new ones, he did not guess that he would be fitting together pieces of Hawai\u2019i\u2019s musical past to tell the story of her musical present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Exhilarated hearing Ki-Lin\u2019s work, I got home and asked my friend and colleague, Sarah Hodges, herself a skilled violinist at many a local <em>kanikapila<\/em> (music jam), to interview my new acquaintance for more details. This tale, therefore,\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"947024\" height=\"248\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/6d95fce9-41d0-7b2b-6344-6decf23add4c.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/6d95fce9-41d0-7b2b-6344-6decf23add4c.png\" width=\"200\" style=\"float: left;\" \/>represents a collaborative effort between Sarah, me, and of course Ki-Lin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">At age 12 Ki-Lin was disassembling musical instruments to understand how they worked. At 16 he began apprenticing with a luthier in Berkeley, and by the time he graduated from high school he had the skills to repair and build string instruments as well as to play them. He went on to study jazz and bluegrass history in both California and New York.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"946988\" height=\"340\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/0596c895-cee0-2da3-6da9-f405d10f3de1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/0596c895-cee0-2da3-6da9-f405d10f3de1.png\" width=\"220\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Reece arrived on the island in 2002 and opened his instrument shop, KR Strings, in Kailua, here on the island of O\u2018ahu. His loving, skilled touch with the instruments quickly won him the trust of Hawai\u2019i\u2019s many and varied musicians. He fixed everybody\u2019s instruments, from the most famous musicians of Hawai\u2019i to the plumbers, mechanics, farmers, and school teachers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">\u201cEvery time customers brought in a broken instrument, they would tell me stories that I just couldn&#8217;t forget. They would say, \u2018Oh, yeah, my great grandmother was on tour in <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"947004\" height=\"296\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/b3524319-0004-43ca-54ff-31e33959d44c.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/b3524319-0004-43ca-54ff-31e33959d44c.png\" width=\"210\" style=\"float: left;\" \/>the 1920\u2019s with so-and-so\u2019, or tell me how a family member went to China, Japan, India, or Sri Lanka performing on a certain instrument,\u201d recounts \u00a0Ki-Lin. For years, he listened in amazement and awe as countless stories rolled through his music shop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">In addition to the remarkable people Ki-Lin was blessed to meet were the historic entities of wire and wood. One day while traveling through Kealekekua on the Kona coast of the Big Island an antique store owner mentioned that he knew where the personal guitar of Prince Jonah K\u016bhi\u014d Kalaniana\u02bbole was. After a year of following the lead, Ki-Lin\u2019s nonprofit organization the Kealakai Center for Pacific Strings was able to purchase the guitar, which dates to roughly 1912.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"947020\" height=\"369\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/8ae443d5-5c57-7cdc-0b09-8cd5dd960b12.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/8ae443d5-5c57-7cdc-0b09-8cd5dd960b12.png\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Ki-Lin surmises that the guitar\u2019s nautical star inlay may have signified the many ocean voyages the Prince made between Honolulu and Washington, DC, where he worked as Hawaii\u2019s first representative to the US Congress. The unusual scroll motif inlaid at the base of the guitar looks very much like Prince Kuhio\u2019s famous handle-bar mustache. What a historic treasure!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Ki-Lin intends to restore the guitar to playable condition and share it with Hawai\u2019i\u2019s youth through a song contest for strings, where the winner would have a chance to record his or her Mele with the guitar at a historic location like Washington Place, or \u2018Iolani Palace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Ki-Lin came to learn that members of Hawaii\u2019s monarchy were all skilled musicians and even composers. That fact told him how deeply embedded music was in the heart of the Hawaiian people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"946980\" height=\"179\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/5200db1b-d0ec-b31e-fbc3-700ca3ad4787.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/5200db1b-d0ec-b31e-fbc3-700ca3ad4787.png\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left;\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">He found himself rescuing some of the old instruments coming into his shop just in time to restore them before it was too late. \u00a0Ki-Lin began to realize that many of the stories about the instruments and their owners were similarly in danger of being completely lost. Ki-Lin got to thinking. Each of the instruments that came through his hands was not only a tool for sharing stories through song, but somehow the instruments were also vehicles of their own stories, somehow holding a whole, intricate, interwoven story <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"946952\" height=\"435\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/f1cd3d4c-7739-0d0c-c682-e1172787a0a3.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/f1cd3d4c-7739-0d0c-c682-e1172787a0a3.png\" width=\"240\" style=\"float: right;\" \/>of a people within their very wood and strings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Ki-Lin came to understand that the greater unifying story &#8211; of these instruments, their builders, their owners, and their owners\u2019 music &#8211; hadn&#8217;t been brought together. Without the greater story, some families didn\u2019t have the context within which they could appreciate the legacy and contributions their aunties, uncles, and other family members had made to the modern global soundscape. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Bits and pieces of the bigger story began making their way to Ki-Lin in the form of old black-and-white photographs of Hawaiian brass and string bands, vinyl records from the past, signatures and stories of the luthiers who had built the ukuleles, guitars, and violins of previous decades or centuries, and old Hawaiian sheet music that he found in dusty antique shop piles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">As Ki-Lin learned more names of musicians and instrument makers on the islands, he was able to fit together connections and began to grasp the magnitude of the musical heritage that Hawaiians had produced\u2026 and are STILL producing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">It dawned on \u00a0Ki-Lin: \u201cHawai\u02bbi is a musical epicenter. To really celebrate Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s origin story of music, we don&#8217;t need to talk about what was brought here from the outside. We don&#8217;t need to talk about what happened in New Orleans or Harlem or New York. We can describe everything that has led to the Hawaiian music heard around the world from right here. We can see the intersection of brass band culture and a global array of stringed instruments.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"947016\" height=\"288\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/f98d538c-d3ec-f475-c00b-4f9525ca5735.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/f98d538c-d3ec-f475-c00b-4f9525ca5735.png\" width=\"320\" style=\"float: left;\" \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">He goes on to explain: \u201cMusic education was central to Hawaiian culture, and the 19th century Hawaiian Kingdom led the world in music education, and literacy. This birthed a profound renaissance in the musical arts, the effects of which are everywhere one looks and listens. All the ingredients are right here to tell these stories.\u201d He goes on to tell, for example, about all the Hawaiian language newspaper articles stored at Bishop Museum, but not yet digitized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Deeply inspired by the stories these instruments carry and the families to whom they have been entrusted, Ki-Lin founded the non-profit organization, Kealakai Center for Pacific Strings. <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stillandmovingcenter.com\/2023\/05\/magnificent-non-profit-kealakai-center-for-pacific-strings\/\">Read more here<\/a><\/span><\/em>. The organization seeks to preserve the instruments, the music, and the history that they hold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">As it turns out, their task is ginormous! Over the past ten years, Ki-Lin and a dedicated team have worked tirelessly to preserve, educate, and share a fuller story of the music of Hawai\u2019i and the Pacific, for the greater understanding of its history and place in the world. And the work is also up close and personal. He told me how he\u2019s teaching kids to<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"946956\" height=\"166\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/08466734-d39f-b07f-dd32-2f0f8df62fa1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/08466734-d39f-b07f-dd32-2f0f8df62fa1.png\" width=\"200\" style=\"float: right;\" \/> repair their<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"946948\" height=\"166\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/c1c57792-eb16-633c-e4e4-e78267acba2d.png\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/4d46db59debe462c1496e41ab\/images\/c1c57792-eb16-633c-e4e4-e78267acba2d.png\" width=\"230\" style=\"float: right;\" \/> \u02bbohana\u2019s (family\u2019s) damaged \u02bbukuleles and guitars to return them to their grandparents in playable condition again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0a0a0a;\">Seldom has a seat-mate so fully captivated my attention. 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