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Early Recording of Yankee Doodle by Fred Kimball

This was posted on the BHO. It is a great recording.  It sounds like he is using "nail glides" (stroke style) at the beginning, but then go…

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

2 Nov 13, 2020
Reply by Jody Stecher

Essex Pierrot Concert: BOOK EARLY !

Pity that it doesn't mention which year it is!

Started by thereallyniceman in Classic Banjo

6 Nov 12, 2020
Reply by Richard William Ineson

Alabama Jigger (1912)..Edward B. Claypoole.

This is my 5th arrangement of a tune by Claypoole, the piano score was in C/F but to make everything fit, I've arranged it in F/Bb. It's a…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Nov 11, 2020

Anyone heard of "Pickings"?

Here is another rare find while I am busy scanning BMGs The "Pickings" was, I believe,  a flyer given and posted out by Emile Grimshaw from…

Started by thereallyniceman in Classic Banjo

1 Nov 5, 2020
Reply by Joel Hooks

Aunt Minervy Ann (A Dusky Belle)..(1901)...Fred. Brownold.

This is a pleasant ragtime two-step the title of which was taken from a book published in 1899  by Joel Chandler Harris called 'The Chronic…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Nov 5, 2020

Put me down for a Weaver!

I have not seen an advertisement by Weaver, for Weaver Banjos, before. (34 YEARS REPUTATION- REFUSE IMITATIONS) None genuine unless bearin…

Started by thereallyniceman in Classic Banjo

15 Nov 2, 2020
Reply by Joel Hooks

...and you though that being "On Furlough" was a COVID thing?

October 1935 BMG magazine

Started by thereallyniceman in Classic Banjo

0 Nov 2, 2020

Old Banjo Journals are a delight!

In amongst a pile of old BMG magazines I have for scanning I found a 1938 "Fretted Harmony" magazine. (No, I have never heard of it either)…

Started by thereallyniceman in Classic Banjo

3 Nov 2, 2020
Reply by Richard William Ineson

Here is some more reading material for you: KEYNOTES

I have been busy scanning old Magazines and Journals and have just added six more KEYNOTES BMG magazines dated from 1907 to 1929 to the JOU…

Started by thereallyniceman in Classic Banjo

0 Nov 1, 2020

Cotton Bolls (1901)...Charles Hunter.

This is Hunter's 4th published ragtime tune and the 6th of his tunes for which I've written an arrangement. The piano score is in Ab/Db, I'…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Oct 31, 2020

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