Word: banjo
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...from pure. He readily admits that his songs and techniques were as much copied from early listening to radio and records as they were derived from the folk around his Deep Gap, N.C., birthplace. He got his first instrument at the age of eleven, a fret-less banjo made for him by his father, a "pretty fair country picker." By 17, he had begun serious listening to such country-music greats as Guitarist Merle Travis, and had duplicated Travis' individualistic finger-picking style, in which the forefinger touches the strings directly and plucks out the tune while the thumb...
Bonnie and Clyde. Bang bang! go the guns, and the bank guard falls dead, his face oozing ketchup from every pore. Twang twang! goes the banjo, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ride off in a stolen flivver for further merriment, murder and mayhem...
...electric harpsichord, in which the sounding board has been replaced by guitar-type pickups leading to an amplifier. Special switches allow the player to transform the instrument's traditional tinkle into approximations of a vibraphone, a guitar and even a banjo. Admits the manufacturer, Baldwin Piano and Organ Co.: "There's not much left in the harpsichord that Bach would recognize besides the name...
...Church fostered by Dean Napier, a Congregational minister who formerly taught Old Testament at Yale. He has inaugurated an ecumenical Sunday Communion based on an Anglican liturgy developed for use in Africa that provides for considerable congregational participation. Utilizing student creativity, Napier presents jazz and folk-song services with banjo and guitar accompaniment, for Christmas will put on a medieval Christian drama performed by freshmen students in the English department...
Half a century ago, he started out with a banjo quartet in Altoona, Pa. The nation's most durable bandleader still hits 150 cities a year, playing mostly to packed houses. And so it was in Manhattan, where more than 900 of the faithful and 100 "Pennsylvanians" past and present gathered to toast Fred Waring's five decades on the bandstand. "The greatest thrill of my life," he said, and returned the salute by leading the Pennsylvanians in a nostalgic Waring blend of chorus and orchestra. Next week at 66, Fred...