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Thread #116663   Message #2506685
Posted By: Piers Plowman
03-Dec-08 - 06:13 AM
Thread Name: Beginner banjo - advice please
Subject: RE: Beginner banjo - advice please
From: Guy Wolff - PM
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 05:30 PM

"[...] and for a lot of fun look at "Kitchen Banjo " for George Farnby (SP)? style ."

I take it you mean the immortal George Formby, Jr., star of stage, screen and music hall ("When I'm Cleaning Windows", "Leaning on a Lamp-post", "My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock", and many others), who played the ukelele-banjo ("banjolele", but that's really a brand-name) and ukelele:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr.

His father, George_Formby, Sr., had also been a music-hall performer (and very successful, too).