Frederick T. Erskine is an American bass guitarist best known as a member of the band

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. In addition to being a member of multiple groups from the

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area, such as The Crownhate Ruin and

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, he also played with the Louisville band,

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Biography

Frederick T. Erskine began his foray into music at the age of four when he started learning to play

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

. He began expanding his musical palette and soon picked up playing the piano until he settled on learning the trumpet when he was eight. In November 1987, Erskine had begun performing vocals for a punk band which led to him picking up the bass.

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