[Coco] Read it and weep

[Tim Fadden]

On 1/28/2014 4:20 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 January 2014 18:19:26 Boisy Pitre did opine:
>
>> I know it’s getting off-topic a bit, but Pete Seeger did help promote
>> Cajun music too. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkPmTzjIr2s
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Tim Fadden <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:
>>> On 1/28/2014 10:02 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 28 January 2014 11:45:39 Bill Pierce did opine:
>>>>> Gene, I read that this morning and it saddened me greatly. I learned
>>>>> a lot from Pere Seeger. I was too young to be a part of the whole
>>>>> "protest movement", but discovered an old Pete Seeger album in a
>>>>> box of radio station "demo" records a friend gave me. It was just
>>>>> an album of some simple folk songs played on 4-string banjo. I then
>>>>> collected anything I could find on the man and saw a few
>>>>> performances on PBS. He showed me that a couple of chords and a
>>>>> simple line of truth could say more than any 10 page speech from a
>>>>> podium.
>>>>>
>>>>> As Jimi sang it: "If I don't see you agin in this world, I'll see
>>>>> you in the next one... and don't be late!" And as Arlo would say:
>>>>> "We're just waitin' for it to come around again on the guitar...."
>>>>>
>>>>   And a lot of it did, covered by quite a few others.  But no one
>>>>   seemed to
>>>>
>>>> have quite the easy flowing, but great diction that Pete did.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if his 4 string will ever show up at Christy's?  It should
>>>> draw a pretty good bid I'd think, since it positively reeks of music
>>>> history.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, Gene
>>> To set the record straight, Pete Seeger played a long neck 5 string
>>> banjo, not a 4 string.  He played a style known as
>>> frailing/clawhammer, some times drop thumb.
>>>
>>> Tim
> And I'll point out that what he is playing in the above video is a 4
> string.
>
>
> Cheers, Gene
Gene,

You better get your eyes checked.  He is playing a 5 string  banjo in 
the video.  Note the 5th string peg by his thumb. Also the style he is 
playing is not played on a 4 string (plectrum) banjo, only a 5 string.

I will defer to you on the coco stuff, But I have played a banjo for 40 
years + and built a few over the years.  Pete is playing a 5 string.

Tim