Instruments

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Mike Weaver writes:
">  Using extended techniques, Elwood employs a bowed banjo, getting sounds
>similar to Indian instruments; but he picks and strums it, too. The whole
>work sounds like an East meets West hoe-down. Elwood is a champion banjo
>player and the orchestra under Portnoy played with flair and ear-tickling
>energy."
>
There was a bloke at my school,  Andy Cowlard,  who played a banjo and using
a threepenny bit as a slide used to make it sound like a sitar.  A
threepenny bit was an octagonal coin from the days of LSD (Pounds, shillings
and pence), tho that was also the late sixties."


Let's not forget, as well, that the banjo is African in origin, although it
was--anachronistically--popularized in the 19th century.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)