Rudy Lavik died on 1979-09-29.
Rudy Lyle was born in 1930.
No. Rudy Lyle, best known as Bill Monroe's banjo picker on "Rawhide"(the Bill Monroe instrumental and nothing to do with the old TV series)played a Gibson banjo. The "Lyle" banjo was a cheap Japanese or Korean or Taiwanese(doesn't matter which) mass-market entry-level banjo. The name of the "Lyle" banjo has nothing to do with Rudy, nor he with it. This type of banjo is made by a diversified industrial corporation and the name can be anything, at the request of the importer/distributor.
Lyle Saxon died in 1946.
Lyle Bigbee died in 1942.
Hilliard Lyle died in 1931.
Lyle Reifsnider died in 1980.
Lyle Oberwise died in 1993.
Lyle Boren died in 1992.
Aaron Lyle died in 1825.
Ron Lyle died in Denver, Colorado.
Lyston Lyle died on February 20, 1920.
Lyle Gordon died on December 2, 1970.