S. S. Stewart made these instruments with a silver wrapped rim. Dock Boggs was plucked from obscurity to play this instrument in Asheville in 1963. Gus Cannon was sometimes nicknamed for this instrume
S. S. Stewart made these instruments with a silver wrapped rim. Dock Boggs was plucked from obscurity to play this instrument in Asheville in 1963. Gus Cannon was sometimes nicknamed for this instrument and played in the “old-time” style. Pete Seeger wrote a book on this instrument, and invented a long-neck variant of it. Laurent Dubois’s history of this “African Instrument” traces its origins from the “rude guitar” used by slaves. A three finger plucking technique for playing it was developed by Earl Scruggs. For 10 points, name this stringed instrument common in bluegrass bands.