HOMEGROWN MUSIC . . . AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!

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Evenhomesteaders need to relax and enjoy themselves from time to time, right?And almost everybody these days wants to cut his or her cost of living.So how about a little do-it-yourself entertainment?

Andthat's what this column is all about. Down-home music that you can make. . . and the instruments (which, in some cases, you can also make!) toplay that music on.

Wemay also publish some songs, discuss music as a potential home business,run discographies, bibliographies, and/or include whatever other do-it-yourselfmusic topics you'd like to see.

Theimportant thing is that this is your column. If you like it, write to meand let me know. If you have some ideas for this feature, let me know that.I'm open to any suggestions or information you care to contribute. I'lleven try to answer your questions about down-home music . . . but-- bothfor the benefit of all MOTHER's readers and to ease my correspondence load--I'lldeal with those questions, whenever possible, here in this column . . .rather than in personal letters.

Addressyour correspondence--for this column and this column only--to Marc Bristol,31722 N.E. 180th Place, Duvall, Wash. 98019.

Well,folks, I've been bringing you Homegrown Music for over two years now! And,in those dozen or so issues of MOTHER, I've tried to share every bit ofuseful information--about musical products, services, kits, etc.--that Icould uncover. Yet there have been some items that reached me too lateto be included in a column devoted to their particular subject ... andothers that I never got around to classifying at all.

But--whileI was sifting through my files recently--I discovered that some of the long-forgottenmorsels were simply too good to pass up . . . so I decided to put togethera sort of "soup-to-nuts" column, including all of my up-till-now neglectedtidbits and afterthoughts.

MORENOTES ON REPAIR MANUALS

CompleteBanjo Repair by Larry Sandberg (Oak Publications, Dept. TMEN, 33 West60th Street, New York, New York 10023), 112 pages, paperback, $6.95. AsI was reviewing guitar repair manuals for my column in MOTHER NO. 59, I wonderedwhy no one had ever written a similar volume about the banjo. I didn'thave to wonder long, though . . . because--very soon afterward--I receiveda copy of Larry Sandberg's book from Oak Publications. (They're the samefolks who brought us Complete Guitar Repair by Hideo Kamimoto. . . and--in fact--the firm is the largest producer of instructional folkmusic books in the country.)

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