dear theorbo: "F# on the thumb spring" how do i explain it? You are probably a lot younger than my 82 years, for you did not instantly recognize that product...
stufolk@...
Jul 1, 2004 3:31 pm
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Stu Ok growing up in NYC and being exposed to Art Rosenbaum, Alan Block I was taught that clawhammer and drop thumb meant the same thing, and were...
Today on the upper west side of NYC I encountered a black banjo and fiddler busking the banjo player was Norris, well known in the European folk circuit( I did...
... and fiddler > busking the banjo player was Norris, well known in the European folk circuit( I > did not know he was back in the states) Norris frails a...
Relying upon my memory is always risky but let's see if I can get this right. As I recall it, Pete Seeger rejected the term "clawhammer" in favor of ...
... Don't forget Clarence Tross and, in his later recordings, Gus Cannon. I've long thought it interesting that this technique, associated with minstrel shows,...
Etymology is an inexact science, but it is important in the context of Blac= k history of which the banjo is part, and which has undergone some many...
i'm working from memory and my piano days now, but to my knowledge louis gottschalk was familiar with what we now call afro-iberia-new world rhythms, melodies...
You can check previous posts of Gottschalk, he used to hang in Congo Square in New Orleand and heard a good bit of banjo there this was prior to his trip to...
ok.....you guys got me going now.....just found my "carl fischer" edition of gottschalk's 100th anniversary compendium from 1969.....although i bought it in...
Re: thumb lead in rapping: the oly one thatcomes to mind is Rufus Crisp's decorative shifting to thumb lead in his "blue Goose" when he follows a rasgueado ...
GloriaNStu@...
Jul 3, 2004 12:45 am
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"noted american pianist and teacher, eugene list:...foster and gottschalk were contemporaries, but probably never met....."camptown races" is based on the...
... I don't really care what "outsiders" call it. I would rather know what the individual artist, "in the tradition" calls it, if it needs nomenclature. Most ...
Sheila & Kerry Blech
kerry@...
Jul 3, 2004 1:29 pm
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"in the tradition" is a loaded and scarey phrase.... lots of things "in the tradition" have not always been good as wrought by "countrified" folk.....all you...
whenever i hear the term "clawhammer, i am reminded of the old bathtub feet i saw so frequently as we "traveled all over this country, prospecting and mining...
GloriaNStu@...
Jul 3, 2004 3:31 pm
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That wasn't ready to send, dang it. i was still cleaning up the bad typing. -- stu -- DESTROY BEFORE READING whenever i hear the term "clawhammer, i am...
GloriaNStu@...
Jul 3, 2004 3:40 pm
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Stu, your description of Rufus's hand work was very interesting. Have you ever considered making a video tape? That would be more helpful, perhaps, than words....
i don't know what i hit to make that unclean version send. at least one sseldom ets the same old same old out of a keyboard with parkinson's. our neurologist...
GloriaNStu@...
Jul 3, 2004 4:11 pm
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I never heard the terms "frailing" or "clawhammer" in Knott County, Kentucky, where I learned to play banjo Ca. 1950. I do not use either term. I once told my...
As someone who alledgedly is an English professor and a student of language and history, I constantly survey the damage that the English teaching profession...
you are correct, oof course - frailing has been adopted and has a fairly specific meaning. It's been a long, losing battle. I suppose i should gracefully give...
GloriaNStu@...
Jul 4, 2004 11:54 am
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in the end, however, isn't this all futile? i mean, what difference does it make to say "clawhammer" or "frailing" or "knocking" or whatever? i get the sense...
... fairly ... should gracefully ... I dont think that frailing is correct one way or another . The word doesn't hurt and may just be here to stay. I...
... does> it make to say "clawhammer" or "frailing" or "knocking" or whatever? i> get the sense sometimes in these groups that the more esoteric people >...
Yeah! Those of us who write about banjo, hand out aide memior texts, etc. are stuck with`the need to be clearly understood, in a medium which is likely to ...
stufolk@...
Jul 4, 2004 2:48 pm
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Howdy & thanks. -- stu --...
stufolk@...
Jul 4, 2004 2:51 pm
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all those big words?........haa...tony, i am a proud product of north carolina public school education!!!!! and my spouting off wasn't directed towards...
tony....by the way..i just re-read my post and i gotta admit, it was pompous and wordy....but not too bad for early on a sunday morning....take care,...
In the works, digital $$$ camcorder camera by George Gibson, shooting by Carroll Smith, repertory backup by "Barnstorm and the Lost Lambs" (Bruce and Sharon...
stufolk@...
Jul 4, 2004 3:00 pm
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... Only us old farts need ever think "which clawhammer". I think that about everyone who was born after about 1955 isin't even aware of Pete Seeger's misuse ...
