Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week in Nashville, Scruggs, Flatt and their Foggy Mountain Boys (fiddle, mandolin, bass violin, steel guitar) were busy taping enough bluegrass tunes to enable them to leave their daily radio show for one of their frequent concert tours. On the road, dressed in black jackets, red string ties and white Stetson hats, they scramble frantically through Foggy Mountain Special, Randy Lynn Rag, Polka on the Banjo, Shuckin' The Corn, giving each piece the knuckle-cracking momentum and the curiously high-pitched, pinging tone that is the mark of bluegrass style. For a dramatic finisher, Flatt may lift...
What distinguishes bluegrass is 1) the fact that all instruments are unamplified (folk fanciers have long deplored the siren-wailing electric guitars of less authentic country singers), and 2) the employment of a five-string banjo technique known affectionately as "pickin' scruggs." This technique, which moved one astigmatic observer to compare Scruggs's achievement on the banjo to Paganini's on the violin, involves a clawlike motion with thumb and two fingers that serves to transform the banjo player from a plunk-plunking accompanist into a virtuoso soloist. Nobody has heard anything to equal it, says...
Varsity lacrosse captain-elect Grady Watts and senior Dave Bohn have been named to the 1961 All-American lacrosse team. Watts and Bohn, also voted to the first string All-Ivy League unit, combined their talents in one of the most formidable attack offensives in Ivy lacrosse history...
...Claremont Quartet will present a series of five concerts of Beethoven String Quartets on Thursday evenings ers Theatre. Tickets (1 single of $4.25 ers Theatre. Tickets (1 singe or $4.25 for series) will be sold at Matthews 4 or at the door...
...balance his youngsters, Scheffing relies on a hard core of able, steady Tiger veterans: Outfielder Kaline, Shortstop Chico Fernandez, Pitchers Frank Lary and Don Mossi. For the first time in years, the Tigers have strength to spare. Reserve Outfielder Charley Maxwell hit 24 home runs in 1960, and second-string First Baseman Larry Osborne led the American Association in batting...