Our friend Plato would have had good things to say about this, I do not doubt. Men who can play like that are on the spectrum with gods, as discussed not long ago.
Our friend Plato would have had good things to say about this, I do not doubt. Men who can play like that are on the spectrum with gods, as discussed not long ago.
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That is a banjolin, as it has four strings. The similar banjo-mandolin has eight. I used to have one of the latter, but they are hard to make sound like anything but a toy. I used it for two songs for show, then got it into the background fast. Both are fingered like a violin or mandolin.
The man can play it, whatever it's properly called. Watch him finger the thing, sometimes above and sometimes below. If he isn't quite a god, he's not badly placed among the Irish ones.
I notice that the very next set begins with a long bit about how the local Bishop condemned them as bearded, drunken rascals. That song is one that my old friend Alex Cameron, dead these last several years, used to sing from memory. God keep him, whether as a minor god or a sinful man. He was something else: the best storyteller I ever met, and a builder of community.
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