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| | Steve Sano on the musical threads in his life (4/97) |
 | | His wife, Linda Uyechi, a lecturer in linguistics, is from Hawaii, where the distinct chord variations of the slack key style were born of the late 19th-century marriage of Spanish instruments and native vocal traditions. |
| | Sano had brought with him a new guitar he commissioned from craftsmen on the island of Maui, and he lifted it delicately from its case at the end of his talk. |
| | In recent years, Sano has become increasingly intrigued by what he calls "ethnic musics." North American taiko, which developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at a time of awakening political awareness in the Asian American community, has linked with a number of other musical threads in his life. |
| www.stanford.edu /dept/news/relaged/970428sano.html (359 words) |
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