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Collection Overview

Title: Elbern H "Eddie" Alkire Personal Papers and Music Instrument Collection, 1926-1997

ID: 12/9/101

Primary Creator: Alkire, Elbern H. (1907-1981)

Extent: 73.0 cubic feet

Date Acquired: 02/25/2006. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Music - United States, Photographs

Formats/Genres: Papers, Sheet music, Sound Recordings

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of original and published music, business records, correspondence, instructional guides and music examinations, programs, sound recordings, photographs, electrical and mechanical diagrams for several prototype Hawaiian guitars, music instrument catalogs, four original prototype Hawaiian guitars including the first 15-string acoustic guitar, Cruiser, Mini Surfer, and the experimental "Superaxe" guitar with 20 strings, 3 Epiphone Eharp 10-string electric guitars, and Alkire's original acoustic Hawaiian guitar that was used for 1000 radio broadcasts as director and lead guitarist of the Oahu Serenaders during the early 1930s. In addition the collection includes an original Rickenbacker Electro "Frying Pan" guitar. The papers and instruments document Eddie Alkire's career as a musician, music teacher, businessman and inventor. The collection also documents the evolution of Hawaiian guitar performance in America during its height of popularity between 1929 and 1960.

For more Hawaiian guitar materials, see RS 12/9/50 and RS 12/9/150.

Biographical Note

Elbern Homer "Eddie" Alkire (1907-1981) was America's most recognized performer, teacher, and innovator of the twentieth-century Hawaiian guitar. Eddie Alkire, the son of Bessie Alkire, was born on December 6, 1907 in Hacker's Valley, West Virginia. When he was five months old, his father was killed in a railroad accident and he was subsequently adopted and raised by his maternal grandparents, David Lee Alkire and Arminta Alkire (nee Lake). At the age of 16, his grandfather died, leaving Eddie to manage the family grocery store. Sometime around 1921, Eddie began practicing the guitar and enrolled in a correspondence course created by the First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music, a guitar store based in New York and New Jersey. In 1925, Eddie began working at a coal mine operated by Standard Supply Co. in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Soon after, he enrolled in an electrical engineering correspondence course, which he completed in less than a year. During this same year, Alkire performed guitar and tenor banjo for the first time on a radio station, W.M.M.N., which was located in Fairmont, West Virginia.

In 1929, Alkire moved to Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania in order to attend a technical night school. During this time, he was employed by the Westinghouse Electrical Company, where he built switch gear apparatuses and intended to become an electrical engineer. By chance, the Westinghouse building where he worked was located across the street from a local Hawaiian Guitar Shop and School. Members of the School tried to persuade him to abandon his pursuit of electrical engineering and to teach and perform at the school. He soon began playing on the school's Sunday radio hour sponsored by radio station K.Q.V.

In 1930, Alkire was persuaded to move to Cleveland, Ohio where he became a teacher and composer for the Oahu Music Company. Between 1930 and 1934, Alkire acted as the music director for the Oahu Serenaders, an ensemble that performed on over 1000 coast-to-coast, nationally syndocated N.B.C and C.B.S. radio broadcasts. As a performer, Alkire experimented with new tunings that enabled him to play four-part harmonies and rapid melodic passages and as a result the Oahu Serenaders fostered a deep fan base. In 1934, Alkire married Margaret Hanzel, who suggested that he find a more stable career. That year, Alkire and his wife moved to Easton, Pennsylvania. It was here that Alkire created his own music publishing company. Building upon his own educational experiences and the publishing experience he gained from Oahu, Alkire created a series of progressive correspondence lessons that taught beginning and intermediate players how to play Hawaiian and Spanish guitar. His correspondence course would continue publishing learn-by-mail lessons well into the 1960s.

In 1936, Alkire utilized his knowledge of electrical engineering to create an experimental 15-string electric Hawaiian guitar. By 1939, he had solicited renowned electric guitar maker George Beauchamp to help him cast the first 10-string Hawaiian Guitar, which he called the E-Harp (pronounced ay-harp) and which Alkire officially patented in 1950. Near the end of his life, Alkire designed several guitar pedals and several other Hawaiian guitars including: The Mighty Mo, the Super Axe, the Mini Surfer, the Cruiser, and the Islander. Alkire died on January 25, 1981. He was inducted in the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame two years later in 1983.

Subject/Index Terms

Music - United States
Photographs

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Accruals: Claude Brownell performance audiocassettes donated by Dick Alkire on February 21, 2018. Alkire business correspondence from 1932 to 1997, and 10-inch disc recordings donated by Dick Alkire on January 17, 2021.

Access Restrictions: None.

Acquisition Source: Richard Alkire

Acquisition Method: Gift.

Other Note: Pages

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Instruments and inventions],
[Series 2: Publications, compositions and teaching methods],
[Series 3: Business materials],
[Series 4: Professional materials],
[Series 5: Personal materials],
[Series 6: Recordings],
[Series 7: Photographs],
[All]

Series 2: Publications, compositions and teaching methods

Materials documenting Elbern H. Alkire's career as a composer and as a publisher of music and teaching materials, both before and after the creation of his business, Eddie Alkire Publications. Of particular interest is Alkire's complete series Eharp instruction materials.

Sub-Series 1: Manuscripts and sketches

Box 10

Folder 8: Eharp arrangements
Folder 9: Jazz course manuscripts, 1931-1932
Folder 10: Modern improvising - drafts
Folder 11: Swing course management
Folder 12: Mehegan chords
Folder 13: Exotic scales - transparancies
Folder 14: Exotic scales
Folder 15: Exotic scales - Schillinger
Folder 16: Tune name sketches
Folder 17: Chord books
Folder 18: Chord charts - unspecified instrument
Folder 19: Spanish guitar chord charts
Folder 20: Spanish guitar chord charts
Folder 21: Chord charts - unspecified instrument
Folder 22: Lyrics - sketches and drafts
Folder 23: Teachers course ideas
Folder 24: Technichord system sketches and drafts
Folder 25: Huakai Hele La Hookani: Hommage to Walter Kolomuku, 1979

Box 11

Folder 1: Hawaiian guitar manuscripts and paste-ups
Folder 2: Hawaiian guitar music, 1935-36
Folder 3: Hawaiian guitar music and instruction
Folder 4: Hawaiian guitar music and instruction
Folder 5: Hawaiian guitar music and instruction
Folder 6: Hawaiian guitar music and instruction
Folder 7: Hawaiian guitar music and instruction
Folder 8: Artist course and Hawaiian music manuscripts, 1939

Box 12

Folder 1: Artist course and Hawaiian music manuscripts, 1939
Folder 2: Artist course and Hawaiian music manuscripts, 1939
Folder 3: Artist course and Hawaiian music manuscripts, 1939
Folder 4: Artist course and Hawaiian music manuscripts, 1939
Folder 5: Unpublished Hawaiian guitar arrangements: Original container title: Arrangements of songs for future publications
Folder 6: Unpublished Hawaiian guitar arrangements: Original container title: Arrangements of songs for future publications

Box 13

Folder 1: Titles, manuscript sketches
Folder 2: Titles, manuscript sketches
Folder 3: Hawaiian guitar manuscripts and sketches
Folder 4: Hawaiian guitar method sketches and drafts
Folder 5: Manuscripts and sketches
Folder 6: Manuscripts and sketches
Folder 7: A-major tuning course sketches and manuscripts
Folder 8: E7 tuning course ideas
Folder 9: Artist course music and instructional materials
Folder 10: Pre-Eharp Hawaiian guitar method manuscripts

Box 14

Folder 1: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1930
Folder 2: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1931-33
Folder 3: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1932-33
Folder 4: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1932-33
Folder 5: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1932-33
Folder 6: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1932-33
Folder 7: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1932-33

Box 15

Folder 1: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1932-
Folder 2: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1932-33
Folder 3: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1932-33
Folder 4: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1933
Folder 5: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1933
Folder 6: Hawaiian guitar arrangements and tablature diagrams, 1933-34
Folder 7: Pre-publication proofs: "Aloha for a while" ; "This is Aloha" ; "Honolulu Lulu E" ; "Dream Hula Moon" ; "Hawaiian Vacation"
Folder 8: Published Hawaiian guitar music edits
Folder 9: A-major tuning course edits: Original container title: "Suggestions by Evan"
Folder 10: Hawaiian guitar manuscripts and sketches
Folder 11: Hawaiian guitar manuscripts and sketches

Box 16

Folder 1: Eharp professional edition - printer copies
Folder 2: Eharp manuscripts
Folder 3: Eharp drafts and edits
Folder 4: Eharp arrangements of jazz standards, A-B
Folder 5: Eharp arrangements of jazz standards, C-G
Folder 6: Eharp arrangements of jazz standards, H
Folder 7: Eharp arrangements of jazz standards, I
Folder 8: Eharp arrangements of jazz standards, J-M
Folder 9: Eharp arrangements of jazz standards, P
Folder 10: Eharp arrangements of jazz standards, S-T
Folder 11: Eharp arrangements of jazz standards, W-Y

Box 17

Folder 1: Technic system, tuning charts
Folder 2: Eharp technic drafts and proofs
Folder 3: Eharp system manuscripts and drafts
Folder 4: Eharp harmonic studies
Folder 5: Published and unpublished Eharp music
Folder 6: Eharp manuscripts
Folder 7: Swing course for Eharp fill-ins
Folder 8: Swing course for Eharp drafts
Folder 9: Technic course sketches and drafts

Box 18

Folder 1: Eharp system manuscripts (A), 1948
Folder 2: Eharp system manuscripts (B), 1948
Folder 3: Eharp system manuscripts (C), 1948
Folder 4: Eharp manuscript copies (A), ca. 1948-1950
Folder 5: Eharp manuscript copies (B), ca. 1948-1950

Box 19

Folder 1: Eharp manuscript copies (C), ca. 1948-1950
Folder 2: Eharp manuscript copies (D), ca. 1948-1950
Folder 3: Eharp system manuscripts (A), 1948-52
Folder 4: Eharp system manuscripts (B), 1948-52
Folder 5: Eharp system manuscripts (C), 1948-52

Box 20

Folder 1: Eharp system manuscripts (D), 1948-52
Folder 2: Eharp system manuscripts (E), 1948-52
Folder 3: Eharp system manuscripts (F), 1948-52
Folder 4: Eharp system manuscripts (G), 1948-52
Folder 5: Eharp system manuscripts (H), 1948-52

Box 21

Folder 1: Eharp music manuscripts
Folder 2: Swing course ideas, ca. 1945
Folder 3: Swing course manuscripts
Folder 4: Eharp method step 2 original notations
Folder 5: Eharp system manuscripts and drafts
Folder 6: Eharp manuscripts and corrected proof prints
Folder 7: Eharp technical studies manuscripts

Box 22

Folder 1: Eharp music and pedagogy manuscripts
Folder 2: Eharp music and pedagogy manuscripts
Folder 3: Eharp music and pedagogy manuscripts
Folder 4: Eharp music and pedagogy manuscripts
Folder 5: Eharp music and pedagogy manuscripts
Folder 6: Eharp music and pedagogy manuscripts
Folder 7: Gershwiniana manuscript [Edgar Carver, arr.]: For Eharp, piano and bass.

Box 23

Folder 1: Solos for Superaxe
Folder 2: Spanish guitar chord routines (A-D)
Folder 3: Spanish guitar chord routines (E-H)
Folder 4: Spanish guitar chord routines (I)
Folder 5: Spanish guitar chord routines (J-L)
Folder 6: Spanish guitar chord routines (M)
Folder 7: Spanish guitar chord routines (N-R)
Folder 8: Spanish guitar chord routines (S)
Folder 9: Spanish guitar chord routines (T-Z)
Folder 10: Spanish guitar chord routines, instructional notes
Folder 11: Spanish guitar manuscripts
Folder 12: Spanish guitar routines and manuscripts

Box 24

Folder 1: Spanish guitar method manuscripts, 1954-56
Folder 2: Spanish guitar method manuscripts, 1954-56
Folder 3: Spanish guitar method manuscripts, 1954-56
Folder 4: Spanish guitar method manuscripts, 1954-56
Folder 5: Accordion music
Folder 6: Accordion music manuscripts
Folder 7: Accordion solos
Folder 8: Ukulele tune charts

Box 25

Folder 1: Sketchbooks
Folder 2: Sketchbook
Folder 3: Sketchbook
Folder 4: Sketchbook
Folder 5: Sketchbook
Folder 6: Sketches, 1940-48
Folder 7: Sketches
Folder 8: Sketches
Folder 9: Sketches
Folder 10: Waltz in G sketch
Folder 11: Minuet and Gavotte sketches
Folder 12: Teaching materials and etudes
Folder 13: Special tuning arrangements

Box 26

Folder 1: Gayne Ballet. "Sabre Dance": Composer/Arranger: Khatchaturian, Aram (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 2: In a Monestery Garden: Composer/Arranger: Ketelbey, Albert W.
Folder 3: In a Persian Market: Composer/Arranger: Ketelbey, Albert W.
Folder 4: Frasquita (Serenade): Composer/Arranger: Lehar, Franz (arr. Fritz Kreisler)
Folder 5: Cathedral Meditation: Composer/Arranger: Lemare, Edwin H. (arr. Albert Adam)
Folder 6: Wake with the Dawn (Mattinata): Composer/Arranger: Leoncavallo, Ruggiero
Folder 7: Glow-Worm (Idyl): Composer/Arranger: Lincke, Paul
Folder 8: Love Dreams (Liebestraum): Composer/Arranger: Liszt, Franz (arr. Albert Adam)
Folder 9: To a Water-Lily, op. 51, no. 6: for violin and piano; Composer/Arranger: MacDowell, Edward (arr. Gaylord Yost)
Folder 10: To a Wild Rose - sketches: Composer/Arranger: MacDowell, Edward (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 11: Woodland Sketches, op. 51: Composer/Arranger: MacDowell, Edward
Folder 12: Serenade - sketches: Composer/Arranger: Malats, Joaquin (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 13: Le Cid. Aragonaise: Composer/Arranger: Massenet, Jules
Folder 14: Czardas: Composer/Arranger: Monti, Vittorio
Folder 15: Spanish Dance, op. 12, no. 1: for violin and piano; Composer/Arranger: Moszkowski, Moritz
Folder 16: Mighty Lak' A Rose: Composer/Arranger: Nevin, Ethelbert (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 17: Narcissus: Composer/Arranger: Nevin, Ethelbert (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 18: Un Giorno in Venezia (= A Day in Venice): Composer/Arranger: Nevin, Ethelbert
Folder 19: Blues in C: Composer/Arranger: Paparelli, Frank
Folder 20: Dancing Doll (Poupee Valsante): Composer/Arranger: Poldini, Ede
Folder 21: Intermezzo : Souvenir de Vienne: Composer/Arranger: Provost, Heinz
Folder 22: Prelude, op. 3, no. 2: Composer/Arranger: Rachmaninoff, Sergei (arr. Harry Volpe)
Folder 23: Bolero - sketch: Composer/Arranger: Ravel, Maurice (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 24: Blue Paradise: Composer/Arranger: Reid, Billy
Folder 25: Whispering Aloha to You: Composer/Arranger: Reid, Billy
Folder 26: Le Coq d'Or. Hymn to the Sun: Composer/Arranger: Rimsky-Korsakoff, Nicolai (arr. Calvin Grooms)
Folder 27: Ballad for Americans: Composer/Arranger: Robinson, Earl (arr. D. Savino)
Folder 28: Holiday for Strings: Composer/Arranger: Rose, David
Folder 29: Allegro Appassionata, op. 43: Composer/Arranger: Saint-Saens, Camille
Folder 30: La Cumparsita: Composer/Arranger: Rodriguez, G. H. Matos
Folder 31: The Swan: Composer/Arranger: Saint-Saens, Camille
Folder 32: Serenata Napoletana: Composer/Arranger: Sgambati, Giovanni
Folder 33: Romance, op. 26: Composer/Arranger: Svendsen, Johan S.
Folder 34: Concerto in B-flat minor. Theme - sketches for Spanish guitar: Composer/Arranger: Tchaikovsky, Peter
Folder 35: Symphony no. 6. Theme - sketches for Spanish guitar: Composer/Arranger: Tchaikovsky, Peter
Folder 36: Winter? - sketches: Composer/Arranger: Tchaikovsky, Peter (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 37: Serenade (Rimpianto): Composer/Arranger: Toselli, Enrico
Folder 38: Two Bagatelles: Composer/Arranger: Volpe, Harry
Folder 39: Neapolitan Nights: Composer/Arranger: Zamecnik, J. S.

Box 27

Folder 1: Chord Charts and Lead Sheets
Folder 2: Compose-A-Chorus #1-9 (Sketches), 1957: Composer/Arranger: Alkire, Eddie
Folder 3: Compose-A-Chorus #1-7, 1957: Composer/Arranger: Alkire, Eddie
Folder 4: Pretend You Don't See Her - Lead Sheet: Composer/Arranger: Allen, Steve
Folder 5: Canzonetta, Op. 6, 1898: Composer/Arranger: d'Ambrosio
Folder 6: Steelin' the Blues: Composer/Arranger: arr. Andriano, Mary
Folder 7: Arioso: Composer/Arranger: Bach, Johann Sebastian (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 8: Suite in D Air - Sketches: Composer/Arranger: Bach, J.S. (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 9: Rondo (Sketches): Composer/Arranger: Bach, K.P.E (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 10: Hungarian Dance no. 5 (Violin and Piano): Composer/Arranger: Brahms, Johannes
Folder 11: Hungarian Dance no. 6 - Manuscript: Composer/Arranger: Brahms, Johannes (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 12: Indian Summer: Composer/Arranger: Cadman, Charles Wakefield (arr. Karl Rissland)
Folder 13: The Flatt'rer - Sketches: Composer/Arranger: Chaminade, Cecile (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 14: Nocturne - Sketch: Composer/Arranger: Chopin, Frederic (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 15: Valse: Composer/Arranger: Chopin, Frederic (arr. Alberio Buchanan)
Folder 16: Valse, Op. 34, no. 2 - Sketches: Composer/Arranger: Chopin, Frederic (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 17: Stephanie (Gavotte): Composer/Arranger: Czibulka, Alphons (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 18: Melody: Composer/Arranger: Dawes, Charles
Folder 19: Clair de Lune (Sketches): Composer/Arranger: Debussy, Claude (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 20: La Fille au Cheveux de Liu (Violin and piano): Composer/Arranger: Debussy, Claude (arr. Arthur Harremann)
Folder 21: Sylvia Pizzicato (Violin and piano): Composer/Arranger: Delibes, Leo
Folder 22: Scherzo Capriccioso - Sketches: Composer/Arranger: de Swert, Jules (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 23: Serenade: Composer/Arranger: Drdla, Franz
Folder 24: Souvenir (Violin and piano): Composer/Arranger: Drdla, Franz
Folder 25: Symphony no. 9 Largo ("Goin' Home") (Low Voice and Piano); Sketches for E Harp: Composer/Arranger: Dvorak, Antonin (arr. William Arms Fisher)
Folder 26: I Can't Tell Why I Love You but I Do: Composer/Arranger: Edwards, Gus
Folder 27: Symphony no. 2 Allegretto (Eharp): Composer/Arranger: Franck, Cesar (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 28: Russian Romance, Op. 30: Composer/Arranger: Friml, Rudolf
Folder 29: Scherzo and Loin du Ball: Composer/Arranger: Gillet, Ernest
Folder 30: Peer Gynt, Anitra's Dance: Composer/Arranger: Grieg, Edvard
Folder 31: Thrill me with Tenderness - Lyrics & chord sheet: Composer/Arranger: Hale, Erik and Ariel K. Gramm
Folder 32: Arioso - Sketch: Composer/Arranger: Handel, George Frederick (arr. Eddie Alkire)
Folder 33: Bouree: Composer/Arranger: Handel, George Frederic
Folder 34: Courante (Violin and piano): Composer/Arranger: Handel, George Frederick
Folder 35: Shadows: Composer/Arranger: Jacobs-Bond, Carrie
Folder 36: Manuscript Sketches, ca. 1940-43: A-C
Folder 37: Manuscript Sketches, ca. 1940-55: D-N
Folder 38: Manuscript Sketches, ca. 1940-55: O-V
Folder 39: Chord Charts

Box 28

Folder 1: Manuscript Arrangements, ca. 1930-35: (used for NBC radio shows)
Folder 2: 8 Pro Solos - Manuscripts, 1967
Folder 3: Solo Manuscripts, 1967
Folder 4: Solo Manuscripts, 1967
Folder 5: Solo Manuscripts, 1967
Folder 6: Manuscripts Arrangements, Undated
Folder 7: Solo Manuscripts "Margie"
Folder 8: Unpublished Arrangements: Original container title: "Arrangements to publish when public domain"
Folder 9: Unpublished Manuscripts & Sketches
Folder 10: "Goodnight Ladies" Lesson: Paste up and printer's proof
Folder 11: Bass Guitar Instructional Materials: Manuscripts

Box 29

Folder 1: Piano Accompaniment Music for Eddie Alkire Solos, 1950s: Manuscript
Folder 2: Chord Charts/Lead Sheets
Folder 3: Chord Charts
Folder 4: Lead Sheets and Chord Charts
Folder 5: Chord Symbol Accompaniments
Folder 6: Chord Studies; Magic music guide
Folder 7: Chord and Scale Studies (printed and manuscripts); Lecture note
Folder 8: Fingering, Chord Exercises
Folder 9: Technical Exercises - Drafts
Folder 10: Scale Technique - Drafts
Folder 11: Lesson Ideas, Teaching Points
Folder 12: Lesson Ideas
Folder 13: Course Development Plans
Folder 14: Walter Lane Guitar Manuscripts
Folder 15: Boogie Woogie Joe: Composer/Arranger: Alkire, Eddie (arr. Metcalf)
Folder 16: Rhythm and Ear Training

Sub-Series 2: Music and methods published by Eddie Alkire Publications

Box 30

Folder 1: Eharp Revision Notes
Folder 2: Artist Course - Instructional and Sales Material
Folder 3: Artistic Course Instructions
Folder 4: Alkire System of Modern Improvising
Folder 5: Alkire System of Modern Improvising - Part One
Folder 6: Eddie Alkire's Trio Tuning for Hawaiian Steel Guitar, 1940
Folder 7: "The Other Boogie" and Related Correspondence, 1967-78
Folder 8: Rapid Course on the study of chords
Folder 9: "Here's How to Swing It" Series
Folder 10: Etudes Moderne No. 1-24
Folder 11: Eddie Alkire's Original Professional Fill-Ins
Folder 12: Professional Edition Instructions
Folder 13: Teacher's Course for Eharp System Lessons 1-3
Folder 14: Teacher's Course - Eharp System
Folder 15: Eharp System Teacher's Guide, 1949
Folder 16: Steel System Teaching Tips
Folder 17: Edited Teaching Instructions - "EHA" Hawaiian Guitar Method

Box 31

Folder 1: Treatise on Teaching the Hawaiian Guitar
Folder 2: Teacher's Manual for Hawaiian Guitar
Folder 3: Teaching Materials - Clippings
Folder 4: Teacher Instructions
Folder 5: Teacher Instruction, Service Series
Folder 6: Teacher Instruction - Service Series
Folder 7: Step Routines, ca. 1957
Folder 8: Lesson Suggestions, 1957
Folder 9: Lesson Materials
Folder 10: Lesson Notes

Box 32

Folder 1: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music - A major tuning
Folder 2: A Major Tuning: Catalog No. 1-30
Folder 3: A Major Tuning: Catalog No. 31-75
Folder 4: Hawaiian Guitar Teaching Pieces - A Major Series: Lessons 1-60 (with index sheet)
Folder 5: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music - A major tuning: other editions
Folder 6: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music - A major tuning: other editions

Box 33

Folder 1: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music - A major tuning
Folder 2: Etudes Moderne
Folder 3: Etudes Moderne No. 1-24, 1944
Folder 4: EHA Professional Editions - E 13th Tuning
Folder 5: C# Minor Method: E 13th Tuning
Folder 6: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music - E7 Tuning
Folder 7: Eddie Alkire's Artist Course
Folder 8: First Studies on Technic for Steel Guitar
Folder 9: First Series: Tablature and Standard notation
Folder 10: Test Series
Folder 11: EHA Professional Editions
Folder 12: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music
Folder 13: Published Steel Guitar Music - Eddie Alkire Publications

Box 34

Folder 1: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music
Folder 2: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music
Folder 3: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music with corrections
Folder 4: Arrangements for Spanish, Hawaiian, Piano, Vocal
Folder 5: Modern Arrangements for Hawaiian Steel Guitar: Tablature Notation
Folder 6: Modern Compositions, Arrangements and Studies
Folder 7: Well Adjusted Cowboy: Inscribed by Roy Rodgers, Time Spencer; Composer/Arranger: Alkire, Eddie
Folder 8: Effective Hawaiian Hulas
Folder 9: Hawaiian Favorites: Hawaiian Guitar
Folder 10: Famous Hawaiian Marches - Any Tuning: Hawaiian Guitar
Folder 11: Original Native Hawaiian Melodies
Folder 12: EHA Chord Charts and Patterns for the Frequently Used Chords
Folder 13: Hawaiian Guitar Lessons and Piano Accompaniments: Merit award exams
Folder 14: The Thrill of Creating Music
Folder 15: Hawaiian Guitar Teaching Materials
Folder 16: Alkire Steel Guitar System

Box 35

Folder 1: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music - Oahu Publishing Company
Folder 2: Eddie Alkire's Hawaiian Guitar Method: "EHA" Teaching Pieces
Folder 3: Published Hawaiian Guitar Solos; Piano Accompaniments
Folder 4: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music
Folder 5: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music
Folder 6: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music
Folder 7: Published Hawaiian Guitar Music - Eddie Alkire Publications
Folder 8: Technichord System and Tuning - Teacher Materials
Folder 9: Technichord System and Tuning - Sample Copies
Folder 10: Technichord System and Tuning - Lessons 1-12

Box 36

Folder 1: Alkire Eharp System - Modern Electonic Steel Method Part 1
Folder 2: Alkire Eharp System - Modern Electronic Steel Method Part 2
Folder 3: Alkire Steel Guitar System - Intro; Books 3, 4
Folder 4: Alkire Eharp System - First Steps in Technic & Theory
Folder 5: Alkire Tuning System - Arrangements and studies
Folder 6: First Collection of Solos and Studies 1-8
Folder 7: Complete Alkire Eharp system - Step 1, 1953
Folder 8: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 1, 1955
Folder 9: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 2, 1953
Folder 10: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 3, ca. 1954
Folder 11: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 4, ca. 1954
Folder 12: Alkire Eharp System Dual-purpose Prepatory Lessons 1-7, 1952
Folder 13: Alkire Eharp System - How to Tune the Eharp; Complete Chord Charts
Folder 14: Alkire Eharp System - Tu Va War Chant; Love to Endure

Box 37

Folder 1: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 5a, ca. 1956
Folder 2: Complete Alkire Eharp System Step 5b
Folder 3: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 5B, 1955
Folder 4: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 5B, 1957
Folder 5: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 5b, 1960
Folder 6: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 5B: Obsolete edition
Folder 7: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 5B: Accelerated approach
Folder 8: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 5c, 1958
Folder 9: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 5c, 1960
Folder 10: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Supplementary Solos
Folder 11: Alkire Eharp System - Basic Electronic Lessons, 1953
Folder 12: Alkire Eharp System - Part I (Eight Studies), 1948
Folder 13: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 6, 1956
Folder 14: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 6, 1957
Folder 15: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 7, 1954

Box 38

Folder 1: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 7, 1955
Folder 2: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 7, 1956
Folder 3: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 8, 1950
Folder 4: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 8, 1953
Folder 5: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 8, 1954
Folder 6: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 8, 1956
Folder 7: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 8, 1957
Folder 8: Alkire Eharp System - Part one - 8 Studies, 1948-50
Folder 9: Alkire Eharp System - Modern Electronic Steel Method Part 3, 1949
Folder 10: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 9, 1954
Folder 11: Alkire Eharp System - Modern Electronic Steel Method Part 4, 1950
Folder 12: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 10, 1956

Box 39

Folder 1: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 11
Folder 2: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 12, 1948
Folder 3: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 12, 1948
Folder 4: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 12, 1953
Folder 5: Alkire Eharp System Part 3 - Step 13, 1948
Folder 6: Alkire Eharp System Part 3 - Step 13, 1954
Folder 7: Alkire Eharp System - Supplementary Solos for Second Series, 1950
Folder 8: Alkire Eharp System - 9 Supplementary Solos, 1953
Folder 9: Alkire Eharp System - New Solos for 2nd series, 1954
Folder 10: Alkire Eharp System - New Solos and Studies for Third Series
Folder 11: Alkire Eharp Series Part 4 - Step 14, 1948-50
Folder 12: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 14, 1954
Folder 13: Alkire Eharp System Part 5 - Step 15, 1954
Folder 14: Alkire Eharp System - Modern Electronic Steel Method - 17 Favorite Hymns
Folder 15: Alkire Eharp System - Prepatory Chord Studies Using Bass Strings
Folder 16: Alkire Eharp System Part 6 - Step 16, 1949
Folder 17: Alkire Eharp System Part 6 - Step 16, 1950

Box 40

Folder 1: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 16, 1954
Folder 2: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 17
Folder 3: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 18, 1954
Folder 4: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 18, 1956
Folder 5: Alkire Eharp Scale System - First Section, 1950
Folder 6: Alkire Eharp System - Part 8 Step 19
Folder 7: Alkire Eharp System - Part 9 Step 20, 1956
Folder 8: Alkire Eharp System - Part 10 Step 21
Folder 9: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Step 22
Folder 10: Alkire Steel System - My Wild Irish Rose; Gypsy Love Song
Folder 11: Alkire Eharp System - Part 11 Step 23, 1950
Folder 12: Alkire Eharp System - Part 12 Step 24
Folder 13: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Recital Series Group 1
Folder 14: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Recital Series Group 2
Folder 15: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Recital Series Group 3
Folder 16: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Recital Series Group 4
Folder 17: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Modern Improvising Group 1
Folder 18: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Modern Improvising Group 3

Box 41

Folder 1: Complete Alkire Eharp System - Modern Improvising, Group 5
Folder 2: Modern Improvising sections 1-4 (older versions)
Folder 3: Modern Improvising, sheets 12-19: Older versions of sections 2-3
Folder 4: Alkire system of modern improvising - Etudes moderne, parts 1-2
Folder 5: Alkire system of modern improvising, parts 1-2
Folder 6: Alkire Eharp System - Swing Those Chords!
Folder 7: Alkire Eharp System - Solos
Folder 8: Alkire Eharp System - Four Introductory Lessons
Folder 9: Alkire Eharp System - chord forms, orchestrations
Folder 10: Alkire Eharp System - Grace note studies, 1956
Folder 11: Alkire Eharp System - Illustrated Solos

Box 42

Folder 1: Professional Ensemble Edition - Group 1
Folder 2: Professional Ensemble Edition - Group 2
Folder 3: Professional Ensemble Edition - Group 2 (Later additions)
Folder 4: Alkire Professional Series
Folder 5: Professional Fill-ins - part 1
Folder 6: Alkire Rhythm Approach; Eharp Harmony Solutions
Folder 7: Published Eharp music - EHA Master Series
Folder 8: Published Eharp music
Folder 9: Published Eharp music
Folder 10: Published Eharp arrangements
Folder 11: Alkire Spanish Guitar System - Book 1
Folder 12: Alkire Spanish Guitar System - Books 2-3
Folder 13: Alkire Spanish Guitar System - Books 4-7
Folder 14: Alkire Spanish Guitar System - Guitar Lessons For Small Hands

Box 43

Folder 1: Beginner Spanish Guitar Method - Groups 1-3
Folder 2: Beginner Spanish Guitar Method - Group 4
Folder 3: Beginner Spanish Guitar Method - Supplementary solos
Folder 4: Spanish Guitar lessons 1-19
Folder 5: How To Play Modern Guitar; "On The Job" guitar chord book
Folder 6: How To Play The Guitar - Groups 1-4
Folder 7: Easy Steps to Professional Guitar
Folder 8: Published Spanish Guitar Music
Folder 9: Published Spanish Guitar Music

Box 44

Folder 1: Guitar solos - Catalog nos. AP18-AP23
Folder 2: Guitar solos - Catalog nos. AP31-AP38
Folder 3: First year solos for Spanish guitar
Folder 4: Bass guitar instructional materials
Folder 5: Chord and technic studies for the Alkire Electric Guitar System
Folder 6: Alkire Electric Guitar System - 14 medium grade solos
Folder 7: Practical Lessons in Music Theory
Folder 8: EHA course for the Hawaiian Ukulele
Folder 9: EHA course for the Hawaiian Ukulele
Folder 10: EHA course for the Hawaiian Ukulele
Folder 11: Published accordion music
Folder 12: Accordion arrangements (with piano, bass)
Folder 13: Accordion method and music
Folder 14: Melody, words, piano arrangements
Folder 15: Here's How To Swing It

Box 45

Folder 1: Here's How To Swing It
Folder 2: Teacher Training - examinations, progress reports, certificates

Sub-Series 3: Music and methods published by entities with affiliations to Elbern H. Alkire

Box 45

Folder 3: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.)
Folder 4: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.)
Folder 5: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.)
Folder 6: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.)
Folder 7: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.)
Folder 8: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.)
Folder 9: Oahu Serenaders Folio
Folder 10: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.) A-G
Folder 11: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.) H-I
Folder 12: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.) K-M

Box 46

Folder 1: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.) N-R
Folder 2: Published Hawaiian guitar music (Oahu Publishing Co.) S-W
Folder 3: First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music lessons 6-9, 24-25
Folder 4: First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music lessons 18-32
Folder 5: First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music lessons

Box 47

Folder 1: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Manager's Instructor Course, lessons 1-5
Folder 2: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Manager's Instructor Course, lessons 6-10
Folder 3: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Manager's Instructor Course, lessons 11-15
Folder 4: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Manager's Instructor Course, lessons 16-19
Folder 5: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Manager's Instructor Course, lessons 20-23
Folder 6: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Manager's Instructor Course, lessons 24-30
Folder 7: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Manager's Instructor Course, lessons 31a-31b
Folder 8: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Manager's Instructor Course, lessons 37J-40J; Final Examination
Folder 9: Exam manager's course, 1934

Box 48

Folder 1: Honolulu Conservatory of Music - lessons P17-P30
Folder 2: Honolulu Conservatory of Music - lessons, drafts
Folder 3: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Steel Guitar Course - lessons 1-23
Folder 4: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Steel Guitar Course - lessons 1-24
Folder 5: Honolulu Conservatory of Music lessons, 1929
Folder 6: Honolulu Conservatory of Music correspondence, 1932-34
Folder 7: Honolulu Conservatory of Music 12-week Hawaiian Guitar Course
Folder 8: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Professional Theatrical Course - proofs and edits
Folder 9: Honolulu Conservatory of Music Professional Theatrical Course - lessons 1-16
Folder 10: Oahu Publishing Co. lessons

Sub-Series 4: Music and methods published by entities not affiliated with Elbern H. Alkire.

Box 48

Folder 11: Fuchs, Elmer - Swing Lessons
Folder 12: White, Evan - How to Teach Hawaiian Guitar
Folder 13: Chord books
Folder 14: Straight Road To Successful Teaching

Box 49

Folder 1: Baxter's Flat Picking Manual
Folder 2: Coleman Steel Guitar Method, 1917
Folder 3: First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music violin course
Folder 4: Steel guitar method books
Folder 5: Hawaiian guitar and ukulele methods
Folder 6: Published steel guitar music
Folder 7: Published guitar solos
Folder 8: Hawaiian guitar self-teaching materials
Folder 9: Hula Breeze: Inscribed, 1938; Composer/Arranger: Owens, Harry and Bucky Henshaw

Box 50

Folder 1: Hawaiian guitar music: Composer/Arranger: Bronson, G. A.
Folder 2: Hawaiian guitar music: Composer/Arranger: Hoopii, Sol
Folder 3: Published music: Composer/Arranger: Straub, Charles
Folder 4: Chord studies
Folder 5: Gibson Spanish Guitar Method materials
Folder 6: Weidt's Chord System For Banjo
Folder 7: Banjo methods materials
Folder 8: Published piano-vocal-guitar music
Folder 9: Published piano-vocal-guitar music
Folder 10: Published piano-vocal-guitar music
Folder 11: Published piano-vocal-guitar music
Folder 12: Associated Artists' School of Music, parts I-III

Box 51

Folder 1: Published piano-vocal-guitar music
Folder 2: Published piano music
Folder 3: Songs from "The Bird of Paradise", 1912
Folder 4: Beginning piano music

Box 52

Folder 1: Progressive Music Series, book 3
Folder 2: Guide to Musical Composition
Folder 3: Songs Every Child Should Know
Folder 4: Magic of Music (Our American Holidays Series)
Folder 5: New Educational Music Course, teachers' edition

Box 53

Folder 1: Songs of the Nation
Folder 2: Book of a Thousand Songs
Folder 3: Sketches and Tune Lists: Formerly inserted between pages 466 and 467, "The Book of a Thousand Songs" (folder 2)
Folder 4: Sonntags-Schul-Harfe
Folder 5: Heart SOngs: Melodies of Days Gone By

Box 54

Folder 1: Introductory Music (Music Education Series)
Folder 2: Harmonic Second Reader (Natural Music Course)
Folder 3: Sixth Year Music (Hollis Dan Music Course)
Folder 4: A Short Course in Music, book 2 (Natural Music Series)
Folder 5: Music for Sight-Reading
Folder 6: Ensenar Deleitando (Teaching, While Giving Delight)
Folder 7: Silver Song Series, number 7

Box 55

Folder 1: Ludwig's Haw - Guitar Course
Folder 2: Banjo, Mandolin & Accordion materials
Folder 3: Gibson Spanish Guitar System, part 1
Folder 4: Gibson Spanish Guitar System, part 3
Folder 5: Song-dex Treasury of World Famous Instrumental Music
Folder 6: Song-dex Treasury of Humorous and Nostalgic Songs