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Collins, Broomfield Correspondence on Cammeyer and the Zither Banjo
Okay, here is the entire contents of the file folder scanned. The carbon copies of Collins' letters were so light that I could not read them. I was able to play with my scanner settings to bring out the text.
You have to get through some trash talk before you get to the interesting info.
The extracts were typed out by George Collins after Broomfield sent him all of Cammeyers' letters. It is too bad we don't have those. Collins did keep one letter (scanned in this file).
Please read and discuss! I won't give any spoilers, but the stuff about Farland, while not surprising, is interesting to get from a primary source.
https://archive.org/details/collected-letters-george-collins-and-le...
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Permalink Reply by Jody Stecher on
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In the third line of page 2 of the letter of August 6. 1952 there is a sentence that seems to begin
"He struck with his finger life ..."
I'm trying to guess what was intended that looks like "life" but is probably some other word. Can anyone decipher it?
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Permalink Reply by Joel Hooks on
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Stuck with his finger tips.
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Ah. Tips makes sense.
Joel Hooks said:Stuck with his finger tips.
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So, I guess I'll get started.
Some things I find interesting. Cammeyer claimed to NOT play "classical" music except for one piece, Chopin's Nocturne in E flat that "was all the rage in the 80s".
Cammeyer's observations on Farland were interesting, if not consistent with other things I have read. "Many notes stopped on the vellum". 2400 people showed up to hear him the first night, only a handful the next. It seems that many in the industry liked the idea of Farland, but the hype could not fill theaters once people sat through one concert and knew what they were actually getting.
Collins was not so kind about Farland's playing.
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