There sure are. Ron Andrico was a well-respected Old Time banjo player before the lute took over his musical world, and he still plays it today. Ray Nurse played the banjo. Tom Berghan is another outstanding banjo player. And I've done a thing or two: www.ClassicBanjoRM.com
Nice to add Catherine Arnott Smith to the list! Rob www.robmackillop.net On 5 Jul 2011, at 01:42, Catherine Arnott Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/4/2011 7:16 PM, [email protected] wrote > > "Well, I come from Stratford-Avon with a lute upon my knee ..." > > > > in response to this: >>> Actually, if we 'reverse >>> engineer' a lute sufficiently, we'll probably end up with a banjo. >> > > Hey, don't knock it -- the banjo is how I got to the lute in the first place! > Are there any other banjo/lutenists out there? > > -- > Catherine Arnott Smith, PhD > Assistant Professor > School of Library and Information Studies > University of Wisconsin-Madison > > "Employed professionally to test ideas and propose solutions, to deepen > knowledge and refresh perspectives" > [Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson in Jefferson vs. Cuccinelli, quoted in editorial, > "A Shabby Crusade in Wisconsin", [New York Times, 28 Mar 2011]. > > Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, > and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. > (Peter Warlock - The Sackbut - 1926) > > "Be sure you choose what you believe and know why you believe it, because if > you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and > probably not a very creditable one, will choose you." > > Robertson Davies, The Manticore (London: Penguin, 1972; pp. 477-478) > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
