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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1976
Page
3
Miss Willa Ramsey of the U P Home uses a carpenter’s saw as her instrument. She began after buying a musical saw in India, learned by ear, and continues to play at 78 despite near blindness, hearing loss, and arthritis.
Washington native Jesse Radda 79 dedicates more than six decades to sounding taps at area military funerals. He began playing after his father, a musician, gifted him a cornet at age 11, and notes how buglers once carried orders and messages on foot during wars in Paris with the Anti Aircraft Battalion.
A feature blends Miss Ramsey’s saw playing saga with Radda’s long bugling career. Ramsey recalls audiences on ships and mission schools while praising the versatile saw and bow. Radda reflects on 60 years of taps, memorials, and dwindling buglers as military funerals wane and younger players fade.
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