[Dixielandjazz] Banjo Players

[Bruce Stangeland]

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Mike,

Did you sell your banjo to Carl or sell it to someone else while on Carl's
houseboat? If Carl bought it, I may have heard him play it when I took
lessons from him in 2000 and 2001 while feeling the waves rock his
houseboat. He had quite a collection of instruments. He was an excellent
teacher.

Cheers,
Bruce Stangeland
Berkeley banjoist

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Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 21:25:37 -0800
From: "Fr M J (Mike) Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] for banjo players
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Cc: carlbanjo at aol.com
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Posts these days, as we approach the 11th anniversary of DJML, sure are
getting me nostalgic.  Let me see a show of digital hands for those who
remember Russ Presting, the No Cal banjo man (was he in Petaluma? I
can't recall).  The only instrument I ever owned was a circa 1962
Baldwin Ode 4-string plectrum that included on the inside the name of a
famous music store on the east coast (Zaph's?).  It was in 97, not long
before his death, that I visited him in his home, and bought said item.
 Even though in poor health, he was graciousness personified, and
enjoyed hearing someone as young as I was recognising the various jazz
names he was dropping.  It's hard to believe that was 9 years ago.  (I
sold the instrument the next year, alas, and I surely regret it.  The
sale took place in the floating home of Carl Lunsford -- another day of
enjoyable name dropping.),
-- 
Etc,

Fr M J "Mike" Logsdon
Special Assistant to the Presiding Archbishop
North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
www.naorc.org