Okay - well, kind of . . .
Apparently before becoming the original and long-time voice of Donald Duck, Clarence Nash was a professional mandolin player. The short story is at about 2:05 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ne8eKZtF9c
Okay - well, kind of . . .
Apparently before becoming the original and long-time voice of Donald Duck, Clarence Nash was a professional mandolin player. The short story is at about 2:05 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ne8eKZtF9c
Must be how he met Dawg...love the We Wish You a Merry Christmas they do on Acoustic Christmas
Of course, this is pure speculation. I have absolutely no knowledge of how they met...
Chuck
For posterity:
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Donald was a well known folk musician:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IErXg5kBXXg
If links don't work search YouTube for "Mickey Mouse & Friends - The Band Concert (1935)".
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.
So, it's an F4. Not an F2
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