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Banjo Takes Its Place[ As Favored InstrumenttfEriihrX ifiPildnf l*e C^*7rito?Xfity* *,_ J wuu!d*?t W Wu*Michael Pingatore, World's 1 Most Famous Player*Is Popular IdolNew York City,—Michael Pin-gatore, bsnjoist, gets nearly as many letters in a day as Rudolph Valentino, sheik of the silver screen. Valentino's correspondence is mostly mash notes from .flappers. Pingatores is made up rdf what the writers of the letters .usually refer to as “business epistles,* These come mainly from members of his own sex. Some ane from high school students, come from college boys and otherwas never played anywhere else* It was, at first, the favorite instrument of negro workers along the levees of New Orleans.“I learned to love the banjo in the South, says Mr. Pingatore. I used to listen by the hour whilo the negroes played, and the^ happiest day of my life was when I got a banjo in my hands and found I could thrum a few chords to make a harmony*Y»C*Took Months“It took months and even years of patient work to achieve tha speed that audiences love and applaud so vehemently in their fa-from tired business men. AH the vorite, ‘I Wouldn’t Be Crying1Now.’“I do not know why such anepidemic of banjo claying has swept the country, but I imagine it is Decause there is somethingwriters have one ambition in common. This is to learn to play a banjo.p Fadle Playeri ♦Pingatore, who is featured by , , . , ,Pau* Whiteman in his famous about the simple instrument thatconcert orchestra, is acknowi- smacks of home and moonlight edged by musical experts to be romance.(the most proficient and facile j Those who know say that on* Ibanjo player in the United States.' ot the reasons many are anxious This means that he is also the; to have Mr. Pingatore tell them
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Mexia Daily News
Mexia, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 13, 1925
Page 7
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