[Dixielandjazz] Banjos

[Scott Anthony]

Here, here, Bill! Thank you.

Scott Anthony

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From: <bdendle at winfirst.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 49, Issue 66


> Well, now you've done it. I've been quietly lurking, watching the endless 
> discussions of various long-standing topics, and avoiding comment. Now I 
> read that "we have spent decades
> here trying to put the Banjo on the endangered species list, but
> somebody keeps making another one and some bloke learns how to play it." 
> Do I have to repost my comments from 1997 about disparaging the banjo? The 
> banjo is a musical instrument, on which one can play musically if one 
> chooses to. If one wishes to  beat the crap out of it, for whatever 
> reason, one may do so, and you may object, as would I. But why do you 
> always go to disparaging the instrument itself? If you hear a crappy 
> trumpet player do you raise a cry to ban the trumpet? Have you ever heard 
> Eddie Erickson play? Are you aware of Doug Mattocks or Buddy Wachter? If 
> they're not musicians, and JAZZ musicians, then I don't know what to call 
> them.
>
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