Roy Smeck, the wizard of the strings, "His Pastimes"

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The first part was originally learned from Sam Moore, a San Francisco vaudeville performer born around 1880 who had previously played banjo and thus applied banjo picking techniques to the song later called "laughing rag". As a further novelty, Moore played it on a 8 string guitar (the octa-chorda), with two lower strings (each played an octave apart) in C#. Roy Smeck, using his own custon built model played the work in E7th tuning E-B-G#-D-B-E-C#-C#