So what leads the engineering-minded to pick up the five-string? The answer has something to do with how the instrument is played and how the instrument is made. “I will say that the number of engineers I have run into playing banjo is statistically significant,” says Stan Moore, an electrical and computer engineer and an accomplished banjo player for some 35 years. Lamar Grier, also a “Blue Grass Boy” for Monroe, went on to work for IBM for 17 years.Īnd that’s just to name the famous ones. Tony Ellis, who played with Bill Monroe, studied engineering between musical pursuits. Ben Eldridge, of the once hugely popular bluegrass band “Seldom Scene,” develops signal-processing algorithms for the Navy’s underwater acoustics programs today. Noam Pikelny, whose instrumental banjo album was recently nominated for a Grammy, studied engineering at the University of Illinois. In fact, a strikingly large percentage of bluegrass banjo players are engineers, tinkerers, mathematicians, and programmers. The truth is somewhere on the other end of the backward/advanced spectrum.
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(The image persists, thanks, largely, to a five-minute scene in the movie Deliverance, reviled by banjoists everywhere.) Never mind the fact that all the early bluegrass banjo players wore suits and ties on stage. And yet, however much polish this recent uptick in popularity has lent the banjo, it’s not yet shed its reputation as a hillbilly instrument that belongs in the hands of an old-time farmer rather than a rock star. So does Winston Marshall from the group “Mumford and Sons,” and even Taylor Swift, kind of (it’s a six-string). We still don’t really have answers and it’s another week ahead of antibiotics but he’s on the right path and we are just keeping positive.Steve Martin plays one. Things are looking positive for Tre Tre and we are finally seeing an improvement, our super brave strong boy has had all sorts of blood tests, a lumbar puncture and constant prodding and poking this week but there’s finally light at the end of the tunnel and we cannot wait to get him home where he belongs. "We are over 5 days in and we finally have a stable temperature. All we need now is our family back together where we belong. It’s been tough but we’ve done our best for our babies. "We are so lucky we are able to alternate nights with Tre and the kids so we can share ourselves between all 3 kids and keep some normality for the bigger 2. "You never th"Yink it would be your baby and honestly I can’t explain how awful it is having to leave your poorly baby behind in a hospital and go home and just be ‘mummy’ to your other children when inside your heart is breaking. but we’ve carried each other through possibly one of the most traumatic weeks of our lives.
We’ve cried a lot, we’ve barely slept, and we’ve discussed the worst. It’s been the most emotionally draining, frightening week of our lives. She wrote: "Ahh gosh, where do we start … in case you're wondering where we’ve been, last week I took Atreus to A&E after feeling like something wasn’t right and he was immediately admitted with sepsis and suspected meningitis. Mum Naomi had posted earlier in the day, telling her followers about the family's tough time. Jordan with wife Naomi and their baby boy
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