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PHJim	Play Banjo Pete Seeger Style - from Frank Hamilton (39)	RE: Play Banjo Pete Seeger Style - from Frank Hamilton	14 Apr 22
I prefer to call this style "Up-Picking" rather than "Pete Seeger Style". Anyone who's seen Pete live or watched Rainbow Quest or looked through Pete's old red* book will realise that Pete played many styles, in fact the theme for Rainbow Quest, "Oh had I a Golden Thread.. ." is played clawhammer style. Granted, Pete did Christen this style "the basic stroke", but he learned it from Samantha Baumgartner, so perhaps we should call this way of playing the banjer "Samantha Baumgartner Style". *It has been brought to my attention that some folks who got Pete's book before I did may have a yellow cover and some who got it after I did may have a blue cover. I got mine in the early sixties, before I got my first banjo.

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