Dubbed the Grand Letar, it weighed 263 pounds, traveled in a 150-pound case, and had a price tag that blinded prospective buyers.
Letritia Kandle poses with Hawaiian guitars, circa 1935, in a photo housed in the Letritia Kandle Papers and Hawaiian Guitars collection at The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Letritia Kandle with her Grand Letar in Chicago, circa 1935. This photo is part of the Letritia Kandle Papers and Hawaiian Guitars collection at The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her timing proved propitious. In the ensuing Great Depression, all things Hawaiian became a dreamy pop-culture alternative to the grim reality of the 1930s. The Hawaiian guitar’s twangy voice spoke of whitecaps rolling across sandy beaches.
“If you have, you know that there are primarily two different kinds — one where the dreamer tries to escape from the reality of living, and one where the dreamer sets a mental goal for himself, and then tries by hard, honest endeavor to reach it in reality.” The Grand Letar made its debut at the Drake Hotel in 1937, where Kandle was appearing with Paul Whiteman. That same year, National Guitars, which hoped to market the Grand Letar, shipped it to New York for the National Music Trade Convention,Kandle was pleased to see Alvino Rey watching her demonstrate the instrument. He was her hero, a famed steel guitar player and bandleader. She’d be honored to meet him, but he left before she finished playing.
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