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JLouis Thiry |
“A complete guide to the instruments of the Banjo Family”, by A.P. Sharpe 1966
JLouis Thiry Says:
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 @2:35:43 AM
This is a clear reprint of a booklet by AP Sharpe, editor of B.M.G. It is a condensed version of a chapter from a major work concerning the banjo history. Unfortunatly, Sharpe died before the end of its writing. Mr Sharpe and BMG were more in the classic banjo than other styles which brought Mr Sharpe to write: "…The style of playing used by these
“bluegrass” exponents has a tendance to monotony (even when performed by such leading exponents as Earl Scruggs, Roger Sprung, Roy Clark, et al.) but no doubt “bluegrass” dévotes will progress from this type of music they perform-just as the early banjoplaying pioneers did when they used the same style of playing for their early jigs, breakdowns and hornpipes a hundred years ago."
and this:
"we should, perhaps, here mention the extra-long, so-called “folk banjo” Pete Seeger (the American folk singer) made popular in the late 1950’s and which was subsequently played by most “bluegrass” banjoists—of whom Earl Scruggs and Roger Sprung are the leaders."
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