I just received a return e-mail from the ol' boy and he's sounding great. He was a character and he always loved music, lotsa kinds of music. He certainly was an expert, but there were and are some others. He had the banjo wizard, Charlie Chin, in his shop frequently. Charlie played often at The Four Winds basket house, one of the best of the kind in the Village.

Anyway, Izzy sound fine, fyi.