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Ian Bell's Blog – September 2011 Archive (2)
Africa - North America - Africa... A Good Story
I heard a great story on the weekend.
I got talking banjo at a gig with Lewis Melville, an old musical acquaintance of mine from Guelph, Ontario. He had recently sponsored a visit to Canada by a musician from Mali who plays one of the many banjo-like traditional instruments in use in Africa these days. (I forget which)
In any case it's one of the ones with a thumb string (or two) and is basically played in what we'd think of in a stroke style.
He took the guy around to…
ContinueAdded by Ian Bell on September 26, 2011 at 1:04pm — 1 Comment
Interesting Instrument on eBay
This looks pretty good if it's as described.
Ian
Added by Ian Bell on September 11, 2011 at 8:37am — 3 Comments
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