Bluegrass Musician
Scancarelli is a well-known bluegrass fiddler and founder of the Kilocycle Kowboys. Recordings of his fiddle and banjo playing reside in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. He was a prizewinner at the Old Fiddler's Convention, an event held annually in Galax, Virginia.
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“The mastery of one’s phonemes may be compared to the violinist’s mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor’s renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”
—W.V. Quine (b. 1908)