We had some old instruments in the basement (left I think by my maternal grandmother, who had died before I was born) and I started in the 5-string in 1959...
I started on flute. So it was a natural, when I walked into the banjo instructor's studio (knowing how to read musical notation), and told him I wanted to...
Now that I'm retired and living in Florida, I have ... Where are you in Florida Anson? I am in Sunny Isles which is just north of Bal Harbor and East of North...
... banjo instructor's studio ... learn banjo, but didn't ... and then you'll be able to ... a blue grass player like ... and Van Eps, and so ... - the other...
We have had only 30 persons respond to our polls, even though there are supposed to be 449 members of this august group. CAN EVERYONE WHO GETS THIS EMAIL GO...
... You don't want we thirty who responded to stuff the ballot box, do you? NOTICE: -------------------------------------------------------------- Due to...
At the end of the article it said" supply and maintenance crews", right? I shortened that to "garbage detail" SGW ... ============= Sule. "Garbage detail"?...
Number 1 ... you? That hard core elements is saved for extreme missions which cannot be discussed her. 2. ... - ... may ... incumbent ... I went to college in...
... right? I shortened that to "garbage detail" ... Garbage detail would have been organized out of whatever company organized its own mess and not a separate...
One thing I forgot to suggest in my exercise with the akonting is in regard to tuning. Paul Sedgwick had a great suggestion on retuning the banjo to play...
Tony, I just went to the poll by linking on the address you posted in this note. The first question to pop up was a choice between being or not being a black...
Yeah; by Viet Nam they made the colored & poor cannon fodder... Great story about Tony Bennett. Saw him in the airport once. If I'd known the story, I'd a...
... Tony Bennet is Jewish, which would help folks understand his acceptance of African American colleagues (a trait that unfortunately seems to have lessenned ...
<Studded with 18 Medals of Honor received between 1870 and 1890, the 9th left an enviable campaign record in the legacy of the frontier. Until the early 1890s...
For those who havent followed the link, there is abundent information about the music of this regiment's band and its achievements throughout the west. I...
... acceptance of ... have lessenned ... Benedetto, ... translation of ... I expected you to correct my spelling of Bennett! btw have succeeded in copying the...
Oh; well. Can you send me a copy of that mystical performance? SGW ... acceptance of ... have lessenned ... Benedetto, ... translation of ... I expected you...
I just got the DVD writer and was able to copy a whole disk.? Now the challenge is to figure out how to copy a portion of it. My problem is that I am...
Congrats on being busy.... just copy the whole thing.... SGW ... ============= I just got the DVD writer and was able to copy a whole disk.? Now the challenge...
Never too late to pick up the banjo. I tend to drift into the metaphysical, and I know that this cannot be "researched" except in the realms of deep psychology...
... Could I get some citations for two of the assertions made here: 1. Tony Bennett is Jewish.. Could be, but I never heard about it and he's not listed as a...
No, Washington Phillips & Tony Bennett never jammed together, at least as far as I know, it's just that I'm posting on two subjects at once. OK Bryan, what...
Well, congo square was one place. What was going on in DelMarVa? What were Pinkster Day celebrations looking like? What did Juba's contemporaries do on...
... As someone who was actually involved in voter registration in Mississippi in the 1960s, I would agree with Joel, a generational peer. Younger people forget...
... program ... the bells ... and still ... Thanks, I will check it out. My problem is that once I get software with bells and whistles, I get immersed in...
Some of my best friends are Ethnomusicologists. They, at least, are interested in the topics we aim to discuss here. The last few months I have enjoyed very...
Tony said: "Would that there were more ethnomusicologists, or that our discourse were more on topic so it could attract them" I'm an ethomusicologist and am...
There is buck dance and flatfoot and pigeon wing all sorts of solo dance in Tap, and Charleston and Black Bottom and Texas Tommy and Fox Trot and balboa and...
