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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: Simple Banjo Questions
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:39:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.001659.11335@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> caastanl@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Alan Stanley) writes:
- >I play all three types, but find clawhammer to be the most interesting and
- >useful for the styles of music I play. I'm now going to shamelessly plug
- >the recordings of a good friend of mine from the Boston area, and suggest
- >you get a copy of anything thet Ken Perlman has recorded to here clawhammer
- >at its best.
- >
- Ken has developed a melodic style of clawhammer and is a master of it.
- He also has some of the best teaching materials around. But the melodic
- style is not to everyone's taste, including mine. I much prefer the
- more gritty, percussive style found in the Appalachians.
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