James Tyler also was quite a banjo player. The next LSA Quarterly, which is just about finished, will include a lot of peopl'e fond memories of him. Nancy
On 7/4/2011 7:16 PM, t...@heartistrymusic.com wrote "Well, I come from Stratford-Avon with a lute upon my knee ..." in response to this: Actually, if we 'reverse engineer' a lute sufficiently, we'll probably end up with a banjo. Hey, don't knock it -- the banjo is how I got to the lute in the first place! Are there any other banjo/lutenists out there? -- Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD Assistant Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison "Employed professionally to test ideas and propose solutions, to deepen knowledge and refresh perspectives" [Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson in Jefferson vs. Cuccinelli, quoted in editorial, "A Shabby Crusade in Wisconsin", [New York Times, 28 Mar 2011]. Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. (Peter Warlock - The Sackbut - 1926) "Be sure you choose what you believe and know why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very creditable one, will choose you." Robertson Davies, The Manticore (London: Penguin, 1972; pp. 477-478) To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web sites - [2]www.nancycarlinassociates.com [3]www.groundsanddivisions.info Representing: FROM WALES - Crasdant & Carreg Lafar, FROM ENGLAND - Jez Lowe & Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, and now representing EARLY MUSIC - The Venere Lute Quartet, The Good Pennyworths & Morrongiello & Young Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - [4]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 2. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ 3. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 4. http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/