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Dystonia: Final Entry

Saturday, August 27, 2011

As of this date, August 27, 2011, dystonia has won. I give up. I've tried everything I can think of, and I am losing more and more function in my right hand all the time. I can't keep the simplest roll going. I never know what my fingers will decide to do.

Playing left-handed? That would take years. I've been trying and getting nowhere.

I'm going the way of Tom Adams and working on my guitar playing. I will not play the banjo again. It's over.

I cannot describe what a difficult decision this was. But playing is no fun any more. And that sucks. Big time.

So, I won't be hanging around Banjo Hangout much, if at all. Too depressing.

 

 

P.S. Yes, I have some banjos for sale.

 

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Dystonia and Nechvilles Part 2

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Playing Since: 1978
Experience Level: Expert/Professional

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Occupation: professor

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Age: 70

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1950s Gibson pot with a 1992 Frank Neat walnut neck and resonator

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I've been playing the 5-string since about 1978, when I was 22. I taught myself with tablature. I remember my first tab book was by Harold Streeter and I learned a very simple version of Down the Road. My first banjo was a Saga which I built from a kit. I started playing in a bluegrass band, Cold Spring, in northcentral Pennsylvania before I'd even played the banjo for 3 months! Talk about learning "on the job." Then I spent 25 years with North Fork, a pretty well-known band in those parts of the state. I moved downstate around 1994, and played for a year or so in the late 90s with High Strung, a popular capital-area band. I moved to Maine in 2006, and in 2008 joined the NitPickers, who just finished a busy summer season. Some highlights of my banjo odyssey included being the cover story of Banjo Newsletter in September 1992, opening a concert for the Osborne Brothers, opening a concert for Hot Rize, playing in a real sessiun in Ireland with Tom Hanway, and of course meeting all the great people who love bluegrass music, fans and performers alike.

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