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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
Arrangement:
Materials are arranged in seven series: 1) Instruments and Inentions, 2) Publications, Compositions, and Teaching Methods, 3) Business Materials, 4) Professional Materials, 5) Personal Materials, 6) Recordings, and 7) Photographs.
Series 1 is further arranged into two sub-series: 1) Music Instruments and Accessories, which is unarranged, and 2) Instrument Documentation and Tuning, which is arranged chronologically.
Series 2 is arranged into four sub-series: 1) Manuscripts and Sketches, 2) Music and Methods Published by Eddie Alkire Publications, 3) Music and Methods Published by Entities with Affilications to Elbert H. Alkire, and 4) Music and Methods Published by Entities Not Affiliated with Elbern H. Alkire. Each subseries follows the original order of the materials.
Series 3 is arranged into three sub-series: 1) Business and Professional Correspondence, which is arranged alphabetically by date of accrual; 2) Accounting and Business Records, which is arranged chronologically; and 3) Marketing and Promotional Material, which follows the original order.
Series 4 is arranged into two sub-series: 1) Articles, Magazines, and Journals and 2) Professional Organizations.
Series 5 is arranged into two sub-series: 1) Personal Records and Correspondence, which is in rough chronological order, and 2) Scrapbooks and Memorabilia.
Series 6 is arranged by format and then alphabetical by performer.
Series 7 follows the original order of the materials.
Date Acquired: 02/25/2006. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Country Music, Hawaiian guitar, Hawaiian guitar music, Musical Instrument Makers, Musical Instrument Makers - United States, Music Composition
Formats/Genres: Business Records, Correspondence, Methods--Self Instruction, Papers, Patents, Photographs, 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.
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
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.
Related Materials:
For more Hawaiian guitar materials, see Musical Americana (12/9/50), Letritia Kandle Papers (12/9/150), and Tim Barnes Doctoral Research Files on Eddie Alkire (26/20/228)
Other Note:
Pages
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Instruments and Inventions, ca. 1928-1980],
[Series 2: Publications, compositions and teaching methods, ca. 1912-1978],
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Series 3: Business materials, ca. 1932-1981],
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Series 4: Professional materials, 1932-1981],
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Series 5: Personal materials, 1914-1961],
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Series 6: Recordings, ca. 1908-1964],
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Series 7: Photographs, ca. 1932-1976],
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- Series 2: Publications, compositions and teaching methods, ca. 1912-1978
- Consists of 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. Materials are arranged into four sub-series: 1) Manuscripts and Sketches, 2) Music and Methods Published by Eddie Alkire Publications, 3) Music and Methods Published by Entities with Affilications to Elbert H. Alkire, and 4) Music and Methods Published by Entities Not Affiliated with Elbern H. Alkire. Each subseries follows the original order of the 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
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