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What does slack-key mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word slack-key? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (music) (of a string instrument or a manner of playing one) Performed with loosened strings, such that all of the strings play in the same key (most often G major).
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At the vintage Palace Theater, a slack-key guitar concert was headed by one of the famed Pahinui brothers, Cyril.
Flanagan was a New Jersey kid more than 30 years ago when he heard slack-key guitar played by Hawaiian music legend Gabby Pahinui.
The song is Hollywood, but Hoku's voice, her face, and her smile are pure aloha, the music as lilting as Hawaiian slack-key guitar.
Other performers will include the Smothers brothers and The Capitol Steps comedy teams, American Indian flutist Carlos Nakai and Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Keola Beamer.
The anonymous slack-key syncopator imbues this movie with mysterious, tender qualities that don't exist in Wong's empty screenplay.
The screenings were preceded by traditional hula dancing and slack-key guitar music.

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