The Erie-Lackawanna RR stock certificate on the back is in honor of my Pennsylvania coal-mining family heritage. My mother's side of the family were miners, and enjoyed jug band music. I think I got my love for music from her side of the family. I still have to coat the stock certificate with a coating that won't make the ink run, but will do that soon. I should also note that I thought of Shane Speal a lot when making this instrument, praying for his sister and thanking him for creating the forum that helped me learn how to build it! So this one is in honor or you and Maddie, too Shane!
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Nice finish with the stock cert Lana. Coal mining certainly has roots around the world. My wife and I have had the honor of getting to know two seperate "Miner" Bands from East Germany who came to our area. They typically are a brass, woodwind and percussion band with old roots and traditions. Sometimes having as many as 125 members. They wear a belt buckle with crossed picks and a leather apron in back that was used to protect their behinds as they slid down the coal shafts.
Thanks for sharing your heritage and your instrument.
A really beautiful build, Funny thou all my family on my dads side are coal miners, my grandfather came from wales(uk) and back in the 1930`s strike he used to play music and do shows all round the uk for the miners and there families.And then he settled here in Harworth, Nottinghamshire.
where all my family worked and played either in the Brass Band or the Male Voice choir till early part of the 1990`s when Harworth pit became a private company.
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Thanks for sharing your heritage and your instrument.
where all my family worked and played either in the Brass Band or the Male Voice choir till early part of the 1990`s when Harworth pit became a private company.
P.S. Aren't you glad that your great-grandfather changed his name?