[Dixielandjazz] Jeff Mumford (was New Armstrong biography/ Two beat)

[D and R Hardie]

Hi Bob.
Love to hear the answers when you get down to it.
Cheers
Dan Hardie
http://tinyurl.com/nqaup

On Wednesday, December 27, 2006, at 12:50  AM, Robert Smith wrote:

> Many thanks, Bill and Louis, for enabling me to enjoy the Christmas 
> and New
> Year celebrations without being tortured by recurring doubts regarding 
> the
> guitar player in the Buddy Bolden Band.
>
> As soon as these celebrations are over I shall address the question as 
> to
> whether Jefferson "Brock" Mumford and Jimmy Johnson were really 
> left-handed
> or whether the photographer got them to pose such for artistic 
> effects. On
> the other hand it may well have been that both the cornet and 
> clarinets were
> specially built for Buddy Bolden, Frank Lewis, and William Warner who 
> may
> all have been left-handed.
>
> An even more troubling question is whether "Brock" was allowed to play
> guitar when the hitherto undiscovered recording was made, or whether 
> he was
> compelled to switch to a left-handed banjo (a left-handed tenor banjo 
> would
> have the octave G-string on the other side of the fretboard). Even 
> worse,
> would they have had to build a left-handed tuba for Jimmy Johnson?
>
> You know, being a jazz addict isn't all sweetness and light.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Bob Smith
>
>
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