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Old-time string bands were mainly composed of stringed instruments.Those instruments being the fiddle, 5-string banjo, acoustic guitar, and an upright bass/cello.. Depending on the type of genre the old-time music is being accompanied by, the stringed instruments may also be joined by other instruments including spoons, washboards, jugs, harmonica, harps a
No Ruinous Feud is the eleventh album released by The Incredible String Band in 1973. This album features the band's folk songs along with new approaches toward reggae pop and rock beats. Tracks like "My Blue Tears" and "Second Fiddle" are evidence of this.
The line-up for the new tracks was Bossin, Hammond, Cairns, Nichol and Mink, [3] Stringband briefly reunited in Toronto in January 2007. The occasion was a benefit for Hammond, whose eyesight was damaged in a riding accident in 2006. In July 2013, the group (still with the same line-up from 2002) reunited once more to play five dates in western ...
Foghorn Stringband is an old-time string band from Portland, Oregon, United States.They are considered one of the finest old-time string bands on the West Coast. [1] They are noted for "intense dedication to the sources" of the old time tradition. [2]
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The end of the string that mounts to the instrument's tuning mechanism (the part of the instrument that turns to tighten or loosen string tension) is usually plain. . Depending on the instrument, the string's other, fixed end may have either a plain, loop, or ball end (a short brass cylinder) that attaches the string at the end opposite the tuning m
Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air is the ninth album by the Incredible String Band.It features Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie and Malcolm Le Maistre.The album was the band's first almost entirely electric recording; a new feature that was to define the change in the band's sound throughout their final period through 1974.
The 2nd South Carolina String Band was a band of Civil War re-enactors who recreate American popular music of the 1800s with authentic instruments and in period style. The group claims to "perform Civil War music as authentically as possible . . . as it truly sounded to the soldiers of the Civil War."