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| | Eric Kershaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Eric hated any kind of pretentiousness in colleagues or students, preferring a puritanical straightforwardness of approach where language and label were direct and accurate. |
 | | When Eric touched a guitar, crouching round the little classical guitar he played on for lessons, like a huge protective bear in his sports jacket, sheer poetry emanated from the strings, every note a Segovia-like gem, despite the fact he was playing on nylon strings with a plectrum. |
 | | Eric played in an older style, remiscent of Reinhardt, Lang, etc, but his students played in the mainstream of Farlow, Kessel, Montgomery, with no contradiction between Eric's love of the music of the 30s and 40s and the contemporary styles of the students. |
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