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BanjTa^es Its PlaceAs Faoored Instrument■ . • ^-it A’flWtfSr}”*2— I !*e Qrf •*?rito?2f it•rtSr.'t far yc-x3 — J *ccu?Ji-ft W Hu*^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. Pingatore s is made up rdf what the writers of the letters '.usually refer to as “business epis-tles,^ These come mainly from members of his own sex. Some *re from high school students, some from college boys and othert*pwas 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*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 CryingHow.’“I do not know why such anepidemic of banjo d laying hag 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.Facile Playert ^Pingatore, who is featured by , . , , ,’Paul Whiteman in his famous about the simple instrument thatconcert orchestra, is acknowi smacks of homo and moonlightedged by musical experts to be romance.Jthe most proficient and facile j Those who know say that on* Ibanjo player in the United States.‘ ot the reasons many are anxious Tfhis means that he is also the; to have Mr. Pingatore tell them * most accomplished banjoist in the; how to play a banjo is thar he iworld. for the banjo originated in i draws one of the largest *ala-r.«s 'this pountry and until recently 1 of any musician in the world.
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Mexia Daily News
Mexia, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 13, 1925
Page 7
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NY, USA 05 Jul 2020
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