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28 Jan 2014, 9:22 pm

This land was your land. Gone at age 94.



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28 Jan 2014, 10:45 pm

Such a gentle voice [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDU5kAnHB8I[/youtube]



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29 Jan 2014, 12:52 am

I believe he was the inventor of the 5 string banjo, or at least the version we know today. Very sad, a very cool person indeed. He lived one heck of a life though!



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29 Jan 2014, 4:41 pm

Very sad indeed.


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29 Jan 2014, 5:14 pm

rapidroy wrote:
I believe he was the inventor of the 5 string banjo, or at least the version we know today. Very sad, a very cool person indeed. He lived one heck of a life though!

Um, no, but he was a great popularizer of the banjo.



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29 Jan 2014, 5:29 pm

I feel bad for have never of hearing of this cool dude.

Rest on!



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29 Jan 2014, 6:32 pm

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30 Jan 2014, 12:53 am

AspE wrote:
rapidroy wrote:
I believe he was the inventor of the 5 string banjo, or at least the version we know today. Very sad, a very cool person indeed. He lived one heck of a life though!

Um, no, but he was a great popularizer of the banjo.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger
Read starting with the banjo and 12 string guitar part. I read a much more in depth article in Fretboard journal about this years ago. I've got to give credit where its due.



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30 Jan 2014, 10:19 am

rapidroy wrote:
AspE wrote:
rapidroy wrote:
I believe he was the inventor of the 5 string banjo, or at least the version we know today. Very sad, a very cool person indeed. He lived one heck of a life though!

Um, no, but he was a great popularizer of the banjo.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger
Read starting with the banjo and 12 string guitar part. I read a much more in depth article in Fretboard journal about this years ago. I've got to give credit where its due.

He invented the terms "hammer on" and "pull off", but the 5 string banjo predates Pete by a century or more. But I see he did invent the long neck banjo, which enables him to capo it or not for playing with fiddlers and the like. (I'm a banjo player myself)