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Tausha Abdul Hammed

The musician who is delighting New York summer audiences with the instrument resembling a cigar box and having only one string, which he made himself.  This artist plays both classic and the so called popular music in a thoroughly unique style.  It is indicative of the taste of the average New York Summer crowd, he says, that it is the best music to which his audiences give the most thoroughly marked approval.

-from the Shane Speal Collection