![]() His teacher, another teenage inmate, was righthanded, and so he learned to play on a guitar that was strung for a right-handed guitarist - “upside down and backwards” for him. The guitar several years later while he was incarcerated in what was then known as the Koolau Boys Home. The second son born to slack key master Charles Philip “Gabby” Pahinui and his wife, Emily Kauha Pahinui, Bla Pahinui learned how to play ukulele in childhood by watching his father, but only took up ![]() James Daniel Pahinui - known for most of his life as “Bla,” the greatest left-handed slack key guitarist of his generation - died Wednesday, Jat home in Waialua, after a long battle with cancer.
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