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Ku-Lukum Rag..1909..Claude P. Christopher & Carl T. Williams

This is a very good example of a slow rag/drag. I could find no information about the composers nor the meaning of the tune title. To play…

Started by Steve Harrison

0 Mar 10

Kentucky Wedding Knot..1908..A.W.Turner

This is a one off rag by a composer about whom I could find no information. It's a well written piece and contains snippets of Mendelssohn'…

Started by Steve Harrison

4 Mar 7
Reply by Joel Hooks

Banjo restoration

Does anyone recommend any 5 string Banjo repairers in the UK. I'm in the Midlands and have a very interesting Windsor 5 string. It was mad…

Started by Phil cooper

1 Mar 5
Reply by Banjowaif

Quality rag..1909..Ella Hudson Day

The composer was a pianist and writer of songs and rags and a lifelong resident of Texas. The piano score was written in C, my arrangement…

Started by Steve Harrison

0 Mar 3

Still Fretting by Rob Murch...

The revived Veteran label has reissued Rob Murch's 2003 album Still Fretting as a download... Essential stuff! https://veterantapes.bandc

Started by Russ Chandler

0 Mar 2

The 1912 Farland Method

This work has been somewhat of an enigma for me.  The copy available is just a notch above unreadable.  From what I could read, it was a pl…

Started by Joel Hooks

0 Mar 2

Cammeyer Scanning Project.

I've been slowly chipping away the Cammeyer file box.  I'm guessing I am about half way, but expect to begin to encounter duplicates for mu…

Started by Joel Hooks

7 Feb 25
Reply by Joel Hooks

The Brownie Rag..An Original Stop Time Rag..1905.. Frank Wooster & Max Wilkins

This a very tuneful rag with plenty of variety. I've combined the piano RH and LH for the bass melodies in the first section and changed th…

Started by Steve Harrison

0 Feb 24

An Alalabama Jubilee..1900..Cake Walk & Two Step..Ellis R.Ephraim.

This a well written Cake Walk and one that could have been written for banjo. I've mixed and matched the piano RH and LH from the piano sco…

Started by Steve Harrison

0 Feb 23

Boiled Owl Rag..1911...Margaret Woodin Couchie

This is a very well written one off rag by a composer about whom I could find no information. The title  appears to come from the expressio…

Started by Steve Harrison

0 Feb 14

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