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Thread #10378   Message #72011
Posted By: dick greenhaus
19-Apr-99 - 12:36 PM
Thread Name: trivia
Subject: RE: trivia
FWIW, The name "Dueling Banjos" came from a prank played by Mr. Robert Pliskin, who equipped a beat-up banjo with a bayonet, and placed it in the window of Izzy Young's Folklore Center with a placard: One half of the only known set of dueling banjos. Eric Weissburg was strangely taken with this.