Peter, Paul and Mary?

Question

Anyone know what kind of instruments they use and anything about their style of music?

Answer 1

Very hippy-dippy, folksy music. "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is their best-known song, if that gives you an idea.

Answer 2

Yes, they specialized in Folk Music, and Peter & Paul used acoustic guitars, Mary a tambourine. They are still recording and touring after 43 years in the music scene.

Answer 3

The first answerer is correct. They also did some good close harmony (contrast "Because All Men Are Brothers" with a written-music copy of "O Sacred Head Sore Wounded"--the latter is 4-part harmony, and they of course had only 3 singers).

Note: I showed up at Mission Santa Clara for an interfaith service in 1981 or '82 (arrived before it started), and the organist was playing "O Sacred Head Sore Wounded." I said, "Hey! You're finally playing one I know!" and launched into "Because All Men Are Brothers." The presider, the organist and the sacristan all looked at me as though I had three heads and produced an entirely different set of lyrics. (Oh, this isn't from the civil-rights era per se; it's from the union-organizing movement. [If you write your union-organizing song to a well-known and well-written Protestant hymn, then half your audience will know it and the rest will pick it up.]

Answer 4

Folk music. There were two guitars and Mary sang without an instrument.

Answer 5

sang folk music Mary sang,the others played guitars. on rare occasion Mary did play a mandolin and the group wilson philp's are their children.

Answer 6

2 men with custom accoustical guitars. one woman who sometimes played a tambourine or a kazoo. still going on past their retirement too!

Answer 7

it was music for hippies and drugged up losers
i only listen to Paris