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BlackBanjo · Black Banjo Then and Now

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  • Members: 438
  • Category: Banjo
  • Founded: Mar 30, 2004
  • Language: English
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31 writerrad@...
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Apr 1, 2004
1:12 pm
Edu-Tainer, Percussionist, Author, Teacher and Storyteller, Sule ("soo-lay") Greg Wilson brings over thirty years of performance and research to the stage. ...
32 Carroll Smith
banjocom Offline Send Email
Apr 1, 2004
1:31 pm
(Dr) Sparky and Rhonda Rucker will be featured performers at the upcoming Florida Folk Festival. They have a web site: http://www.sparkyandrhonda.com/ The...
33 writerrad@...
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Apr 1, 2004
1:44 pm
I am going to post the CV blurb from your Web page, so people will know from where you speack, but it is an Honor to have you aboard. I am sure much knowledge...
34 gourdbanjo2003 Offline Send Email Apr 1, 2004
7:07 pm
This is a test message to see if I figured out how to join this group. Looks like I've run into a lot of real and virtual buddies here from past groups and...
35 Carroll Smith
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Apr 1, 2004
7:16 pm
Nice to see SGW on tap here! (My admiration of Baba Olatunji far precedes my interest in banjo. I saw him and his dance troop in a small New Jersey college...
36 Rashunda
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Apr 1, 2004
8:44 pm
Hi there Mr. Wilson! It's wonderful to meet you and to read your post. You brought up a d*mned good point. ... That statement really gave me food for thought....
37 writerrad@...
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Apr 1, 2004
11:11 pm
In a message dated 4/1/2004 2:09:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, gourdbanjo@... writes: I've recently finished building a copy of the Haiti banza that ULI and...
38 Sule Greg C. Wilson
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Apr 2, 2004
12:46 am
Ya know, this is really funny. A few years back, I only knew of three or four AfrAm banjo players: a woman studying with Tony Trischka, a storyteller in...
39 Sule Greg C. Wilson
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Apr 2, 2004
1:09 am
Here's a good story 'bout "best left untouched". This summer I was working at a summer camp in CA, for kids whose parents are "in the system"....... I tried...
40 Sule Greg C. Wilson
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Apr 2, 2004
1:13 am
Hi, there Rashunda! So glad to be stimulating the gray cells, and seeing things another way. How 'bout this: If an African plays bass, like those fantastic...
41 Sule Greg C. Wilson
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Apr 2, 2004
1:28 am
Hey, folks! Here's a quick thought that impinges on all we say and do here: Tell me, please, when does "African" become "African American"? When you stop...
42 writerrad@...
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Apr 2, 2004
4:25 am
In a message dated 4/1/2004 7:47:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, suleness@... writes: Ya know, this is really funny. A few years back, I only knew of three ...
43 writerrad@...
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Apr 2, 2004
4:27 am
In a message dated 4/1/2004 7:47:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, suleness@... writes: Now we've got 40-odd people on this web site! Lookee here, lookee here ...
44 gourdbanjo2003 Offline Send Email Apr 2, 2004
6:35 am
Tony wrote: Right now at 1125pm est, we have 61 mem bers. I think a large number of those people are NOT black, although I think there are a number of people...
45 Rashunda
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Apr 2, 2004
9:00 am
I ran ... Oh gosh. Feel free to write if you're talking about me. By the way, I was born and raised in Memphis, but worked in High Point, North Carolina for a...
46 lordkoos Offline Send Email Apr 2, 2004
9:15 am
... crack at re-stringing ... need to restring my banjo ... enough string going around ... from going out of tune. ... Everything else seems ... Hi Rashunda,...
47 lordkoos Offline Send Email Apr 2, 2004
9:26 am
I want to say hello to all and introduce myself. I'm a long-time professional guitarist who is learning to play banjo, something I've always wanted to do but...
48 Rashunda
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Apr 2, 2004
12:24 pm
... Hi Al, Yep. I bought a new pack of strings last week. My husband is a former guitar teacher so I guess I could ask him if I got in a bind. I'm just...
49 Carroll Smith
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Apr 2, 2004
12:30 pm
Many of you know this already but there is a ton of information on the banjo on the internet. www.google.com is a good place to start. I searched on...
50 Carroll Smith
banjocom Offline Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
12:34 pm
Before you start, mark the place the bridge sits on the head, and put a dot on the end of the bridge that has the 5th string slot. Then you can slack all the...
51 writerrad@...
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Apr 2, 2004
12:53 pm
Sorry Rashunda, I meant that letter to be a private letter to Mr. Sule, although I was raised never to put anything in writing to anyone you did not want...
52 writerrad@...
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Apr 2, 2004
12:57 pm
Yeah, good thing to remember that bridge. You might take a pencil and make a little mark to mark the spot where the bridge is anyway, so you don't move it...
53 T Barlow
vansman03 Offline Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
3:13 pm
For instrument questions, go to www.frets.com and look for banjo restringing. Mark this site as a favorite. I don't use his method but lots do. I just fasten...
54 Carroll Smith
banjocom Offline Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
3:15 pm
Please forgive my promoting my own web site but Tony has provided the right forum to introduce my prebluegrass black banjoist photograph. The pic is from the...
55 Dave Brown
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Apr 2, 2004
3:51 pm
... Glad to meet you, Al. ... Dave Hyatt, who's site you visited, created a loan program for gourd banjos. He called it "Board a Gourd". He had several gourd...
56 Dave Brown
quahogwi Offline Send Email
Apr 2, 2004
3:54 pm
... Hey, what with this "odd" stuff? <great big friendly grin". How do you know so much about me? ... Yep, probably so. I'm one of 'em, but so far it seems...
57 Marc Perdue
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Apr 2, 2004
4:12 pm
Carroll, I know this is not quite related to banjo, but what is the significance of phosphates in Florida? Is it merely as a source of fertilizer? My dad ...
58 writerrad@...
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Apr 2, 2004
4:21 pm
" So here he is. Our pre-bluegrass banjoist. Notice that he is not sitting or bored with the camera. He is standing proud, legs spread, prized banjo held as he...
59 Tony
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Apr 2, 2004
4:35 pm
Dear Friends: This group has become so successful and interesting that I have had to put it on digest for myself, the moderator!!!!! There are too many emails...
60 Dave Brown
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Apr 2, 2004
4:52 pm
At 06:34 AM 4/2/04 +0000, you wrote: <whole lot of great commentary snipped> ... Yep. Same goes for me. I can only imagine the scene when you and Sule ...
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