[Coco] Read it and weep

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 28 January 2014 23:05:19 Tim Fadden did opine:

> 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
> 
>
I always figured the tuning pegs were all in the head.  My bad. 
> 
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