Kodak Can Banjo!
August 22, 2007
We were talking to John D. in Charles City Iowa the other day and he mentioned he plays a banjo made from an old Kodak film can.
I’ve heard this banjo (John sent me an mp3 file) and it sounds wonderful. To be honest, I was shocked to find out that I was listening to a homemade instrument. This thing just rocks!
I don’t know if John is making any more of these, but you can visit his web site for contact information – and if you’re out in Iowa he’s looking for people to jam with.
Core Values
August 22, 2007
Roger in Korea brought up the interesting idea of posting a list of my core values. In other words what I believe, why I teach the way I do, my dedication to making music instruction accessible to everybody and stuff like that.
I already did that in A Book of Five Strings.
Why I Play The Banjo
From A Book of Five Strings ISBN 0974419028
I was just a teenager when I had my first epileptic seizure. I don’t remember the seizure itself. All I know is that I was eating French toast watching television one moment and the next thing I knew I was being rolled through a CAT scan. To say it was a terrifying experience would be understating it more than a little a bit.
