R.I.P. Spencer Nitchie

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R.I.P. Spencer Nitchie

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Spencer Nitchie has recently died. Spencer and his brother and business partner Don have published the Banjo Newsletter since the early 1990´s, continuing the work of their father, Hub Nitchie, who founded the Banjo Newsletter in 1971. Don Nitchie has announced the suspension of the publication after the September issue.

I remember anxiously awaiting my next issue in the early Seventies. In particular, Hub would have hilarious editorials, and marvelous tab transcriptions of John Hartford´s tunes with his group The Steam Powered Aeroplane.

Side note, Hartford´s group name lead me to the quirky fact that someone took a Besler Steam Automobile powerplant and used it to power a small plane.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6NFmcnW-8

Bob
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