This was a very strange occurence!! As I was catching up on this thread I was talking on the phone to my friend and banjo mentor when his name popped up on the screen!! My banjo teacher is none other than VGO! Harpgirl, it is quite possible from VGO's description of you that we may have met before! What a small world this is becoming.....If anyone has any of the tapes or CD's of the 97th Regimental String Band you have VGO's smiling countenance in your hand. He left the band a few years ago in pursuit of other things, but they still use the old pictures onthe covers. (He will be the thinner of the trio, with either a banjo or mandolin in hand)