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Thread #121539 Message #2655067
Posted By: VirginiaTam
12-Jun-09 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: Musical Ancestors
Subject: RE: Musical Ancestors
My Gammy (maternal grandmother) played (self taught by ear) autoharp and piano. Mostly hymn. I know she wrote hymns too, but I don't knwo what happened to them.
My Mom sang with her sisters on radio in the 1940's and spent lifetime doing church soloist duty, weddings and funerals. She will be 82 in August and is still going strong with the Singing Saints.
On my dad's side, he used to hum, whistle and sing for fun and could carry a tune.
Evidently someone was either drummer or fifer(?) or maybe both during US Revolution because both a fife and drum were handed down to to my dad by his granddad. He took them to show at school when we has a boy and the teacher asked to borrow them for the weekend to show a historian. He then claimed they were stolen. Think my dad said he was 8 or 9 and his parents (Quakers) wouldn't pursue the loss legally.
That would have been around 1929 or 1930.