In one corner is the Smoky Mountain String Band three guys in blue dungarees with a banjo, fiddle and upright bass.

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The recordings he made 45 years ago for Romanian Electrecord, with fiddle, accordion, bass and cimbalom (hammered dulcimer), have just been issued in the U.S. for the first time.

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The banjos on the veranda are joined by the low boom of a double bass and jaunty pitch of a fiddle and guitar, the audience nodding along to the beat.

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The symphonic sound is now based on mandolins, fiddle, dobro, guitar, string bass, and banjo with some of Nashville's best voices chiming in with close vocal harmonies.

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