Word: self-taught
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...heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas. Finally there was "the world's greatest mandolinist," Giuseppe Pettine of Providence, R. I., of whom the official Guild Reporter said in advance of his platform...
Responsible for the details of the tombstone show was grey-haired, convivial Designer Ernest Leland of Manhattan's swank Presbrey-Leland Studios. He is a self-taught draughtsman, whose forebears for generations have been tombstone-makers. Salesmen know that he has embellished more graves than any other single individual in the industry. From his drawing board came one of the most expensive tombs ever erected in the U. S., the $300,000 William Rockefeller Mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. He is responsible for the Back-to-the-Epitaph movement now stirring the industry...
...knock holes in the walls." In the same mood he turned Communist. Impressed, St. Louis began giving him one-man shows, more prizes. Joe sent a picture to the Sixteen Cities Show in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, with an autobiography: "Joe Jones. Born St. Louis, 1909. Self-taught...
When pressed for facts concerning his training and start, Ted explained that he was a self-taught musician, having first picked up the rudiments as an apprentice in a music shop in his home town, Circleville, Ohio. His four brothers all attended college, but the music bug took hold of Ted at an early age, and he began his vaudeville career at the tender age of nine. Incidentally, the movie in which he played recently and which supposedly represented the story of his life, was classed by him as "ordinary movie hokum...
...English student who does his practice writing under critical guidance and thus acquires some knowledge of theory and principles has an advantage over the man who is self-taught. It is the same in business...