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Playing Since: 1980
Experience Level: Purty Good
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Occupation: WASTEWATER LAB
Gender: Male
Age: 56
My Instruments:
I have a Strad copy from Grandpa. I also have a fiddle that was made for me by Deborah-Helen Viator in Eunice, LA, which is my "tuned-down" Cajun fiddle. My first fiddle (which I still have & is still my best) is one that I payed only $150 for in 1980. The tone is balanced all the way across, but sounds particularly rich in the bass. The story I like to tell about it is that Mike Seeger once offered to buy it off me.
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Favorite Bands/Musicians:
I like anybody that plays Old-time and Cajun. Favorites include Kenny Jackson of the Rhythm Rats, Double Decker String Band, Rafe Stefanini, Clyde Davenport, Tommy Jarrell, Charlie Bowman, Al Hopkins & His Bucklebusters (aka The Hillbillies), Melvin Wine, Ernie Carpenter and Chirps Smith.
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Created 6/23/2007
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Saturday, October 09, 2010 @8:32:03 PM
My band did a program for a middle school yesterday. We got them up doing a square dance (this was in the gymnasium) and it got so loud in there none of us could hear what the others were doing. I couldn't hear the banjo at all. I told our guitar player I was mainly trying to hear her chording to give me a clue that I was where I was supposed to be. She said she couldn't hear anybody but me, and that was the main guide to tell her what chords she SHOULD be playing!
Meanwhile I'm concerned that I'm not keeping steady enough timing for the gal who was calling the dance, and I know she is real persnickety about rock-steady timing. One reason I know this is that her name is Lisa Ornstein. Many of you in the Chicago area will know her. She is a world-class caller. They don't come any better (Sorry, Phil J.) And I am just completely tickled and honored that she's been working with us when we've needed her. This event was the second time I've gotten to work with her, and at the end of both events she has come up to me and told me she likes dancing to my fiddling. (You can scoop my jaw up off the floor now.) So forgive me if I toot my horn a little bit here (OK, a LOT!), but somebody whom I respect a heck of a lot has paid me a very meaningful compliment.
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