Slightly off topic but Phil Gregg wrote: >My instrument is actually Irish tuned fourstring banjo, but >my "friends" >refuse to use the words "player" and "banjo" in the same >sentence. They >insist it's ungrammatical.
>They refer to me instead as a Banjo Hitter... So, thanks to >you, maybe I'll >rename the instrument "Hammer Banjo". Yeah - know how ya feel, Phil about 'friends' refusing to give due honour to your instrument. As a fellow player I've been suffering from these 'witticisms' for years. But it's systematically worse here in Ireland where you can enter banjo competitions in official CCE Fleadhs but in world famous Summer Schools such as The Willie Clancy held each July in Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare (and where I've just had an exhausting week!) they don't even have banjo classes. They do, however, cater for true 'ethnic' Irish instruments like the Concertina, Accordion and Fiddle - all of which must, at some stage in our distant past, have been invented by the Larry the Leprechaun(heh!). Don't get me started...! Keep plucking anyway Gerry McCartney To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
