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D10714-1
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- 1941-01-13 (Creation)
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In January 1941, the music activities at Central School, 601 So. 8th Street, included this class for learning guitar, ukulele, and banjo. Joseph Lento is teaching: (l to r) front row - Ruth St. Clair, Eleanor Nelson, Betty Lou Fyke, and Jean Perella; middle row - Beverly Chistopherson, Jimmie Hutton, David Mottley, Kenneth Kennett, and Jane Maddon; back row - Billy Crom, Rosamond Fraser, Kay Fraser, Euleen Isaacson. Every Monday morning at 8:30 am the "pick string" students met in the school's basement playroom for an informal concert. At Central School they endeavored to provide every child an opportunity to learn to play some instrument or to sing. Instruction was given in singing, sight reading, piano and virtually all the band and orchestra instruments. The "pick string" instruments were those that did not use a bow, such as the banjo, guitar, mandolin and ukelele.(T. Times 1/17/1941 p. 13)
Central School (Tacoma); Music education--Tacoma--1940-1950; Guitars; Ukuleles;