Re: Tuning Mandolin without a tuner
I went to a good concert last night with Archie Fisher and Garnett Rogers. Garnett told of watching Jeff Muldar in concert. Some old fellow took umbrage with Jeff's use of an electronic tuner on his guitar, and shouted out, "Come on, you can tune without that gizmo." Jeff's response: "If we had these gizmos back in the day, the 60's would have passed much more quickly."
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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