Celluloid finger boards with mother-of-pearl inlay like this are quite rare for an instrument this old. We have no idea who may have made this, the parts look like they came from LYn & Healy or...
2019-11-05 22:07:09 +0000 UTC View Post
f# D F# A D (relative) aka "Reuben" tuning. In this video we'll discuss different versions of the song as well as demonstrate both beginner & advanced approaches to my arrangement.
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2019-11-04 16:21:39 +0000 UTC View Post
f# D F# A D (relative). I learned this song from a recording of Buell Kazee of Magoffin County, Kentucky. Buell played it in standard tuning. The only other person I've watched play it up clo...
2019-10-31 01:15:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Dolceola Recordings https://www.dolceolarecordings.com/ is a field recording project out of Japan that's doin...
2019-10-27 15:04:19 +0000 UTC View Post
"Banjer Days" is a pretty important compilation album that's just become a lot easier to listen to. George Gibson has several interesting tracks on this album.
Speaking of George! He and I ar...
2019-10-27 14:59:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I accidentally started another live stream this morning & we wound up going for an hour. Thanks to the 200 people who participated! In the future, I will try to schedule live stream...
2019-10-23 15:12:20 +0000 UTC View Post
f# D F# A D (actual pitch). Banjo is a 24" scale Fairbanks & Cole (1880s) with original celluloid tuners, antique walnut(?) bridge & contemporary mammoth bone tail piece.
2019-10-20 14:05:11 +0000 UTC View Post
f# D F# A D (aka "Reuben" or "Drop D" tuning).
2019-10-19 19:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody. I just tried a test of the "live" feature on Youtube and it turned into a nearly 2-hour Q&A session. In the future I'll try to announce live streams beforehand so more folks can ...
2019-10-17 15:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostI Ain't Got No Home," composed by Woody Guthrie.
Banjo is a short-scale, 1880s Fairbanks & Cole strung with fishing line (for sale). Guitar is an 1890s Bruno.
(f# D F# A D) Also know as "Shut Up in Coal Creek Mine" (Green Bailey, 1920s) or "Shut Up in the Mines of Coal Creek" (Brett Ratliff, 2017) I learned this song from George Gibson of Knott Cou...
2019-10-10 23:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Banjo #20, black walnut neck (unstained), submerged cherry tuners, black walnut nut/bridge, ash tailpi...
2019-10-02 23:36:50 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I'll go over how to carve, attach & slot the nut for a 4-string early gourd banjo.
2019-09-26 23:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I learned this cante fable (literally "song story") from my dear friend & mentor George R. Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky. George learned the piece from his father, banjo master Mal Gibson, w...
2019-09-25 15:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I climbed up to the barn on this 90° F September afternoon to try and film this lovely 1920s Vega "White Ladye" banjo. 11" pot & 1 38" at the nut.
2019-09-24 22:31:37 +0000 UTC
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This video covers the actual tacking-on & trimming of the hide after it's been stretched over the gourd sound chamber.
2019-09-19 00:17:03 +0000 UTC View Post
[gCGCD, relative. Would also sound great in f#DF#AD] This is my original arrangement of a song I learned from the recording of Henry Grady Terrell made at Athens, Georgia by Arthur S. Rosenbaum.&nb...
2019-09-17 18:58:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I learned "Cackling Hen" from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky who down-picked the tune when he played it. I'm tuned something like gGCE. To play this on a standard 5-string ban...
2019-09-07 17:53:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Inspired by Hans Sloane's sketch of two "strum strumps" from Jamaica published 1701. The two gourd lutes drawn by Sloane are two-stringed instruments lacking the short thumb string necessary for me...
2019-09-01 19:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt's I'm a going across that icy mountain (x2)
Little girl and I never expect to see you anymore.
Rock and feed my baby candy (x2)
Little girl ...
2019-08-22 22:52:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's two music CDs & a DVD of footage from the trip. Features George Gibson, Riley Baugus, Rhiannon Giddens, John Haywood, Brett Ratliff, Jesse Wells, Matt Kinman, Brien Fain, Debbie Grim, Tina...
2019-08-15 16:38:00 +0000 UTC View PostFirst in a new series of short slideshows: "An Introduction to Early Banjo History."
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In 1620 English trader, Richard Jobson, describ...
2019-08-12 21:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Banjo Roots and Branches (Winans et al.)
America's Instrument (Bollman & Gura)
African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia (Conway)
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals (Epstein)
Folk-Son...
2019-08-06 23:47:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrick asked for it--here it is! gCGCD, relative AKA "Double C," "Hook & Line" or "One-Finger C."
JM Mullins recording: h...
2019-08-02 15:16:25 +0000 UTC View Post
gCGCD relative (fB♭FB♭C actual)
2019-07-26 18:26:53 +0000 UTC View Post
