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Witmark Progressive Method For The Banjo, George Lansing

This weekend I scanned this 1914 edition of the Witmark Progressive Method. The earlier version of this is kind of a mess and attempts to t…

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

1 2 hours ago
Reply by Russ Chandler

Grimshaw Notation Anomaly

I am puzzled by a measure in a Grimshaw exercise in which the pitches and the indicated left hand fingering are at odds.  The book is The B…

Started by Jody Stecher in Classic Banjo

4 10 hours ago
Reply by Trapdoor2

The perfect method part 2

Something stuck with me the last time I posted about the fact that I wanted to write my own method eventually. "What more could be said on…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

16 14 hours ago
Reply by Austin

The Possum Patrol..1892..Theodore Havermeyer Northrup.

Another good tune by Northrup that could have been written for banjo. The piano score was written Bb/Eb but C/F fitted the banjo much bette…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 21 hours ago

Olly Oakley plays Cammeyer's Bolero 1907

Hello Everyone, A great restoration of this recording has just been listed on YouTube thanks to Nick Dellow and I thought might be of inte…

Started by Brett Lowe in Classic Banjo

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Zither-banjo with patented mute

There is a Barnes and Mullins ZB with what the seller describes as a 'patented mute system' on Ebay UK.  I've not seen a mute lever on a ba…

Started by carrie horgan in Classic Banjo

15 on Friday
Reply by Austin

A Night On the Levee (An original Louisiana dance in ragtime rhythm)..Theodore Havermeyer Northrup

My arrangement of this tune doesn't follow the the usual  ragtime structure. I've removed most of the chords leaving the majority of it pla…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

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Two happy Coons..Schottische..Theodore Havermeyer Northrup.

This early composition is one of those tunes that could have been written for the banjo. The structure of the tune is such that Northrup co…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

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Elias Kaufman 1939-2025

I'm going to miss my friend Elias Kaufman. We used to have phone calls that would last past 2 in the morning. Not only was Eli a great man…

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

9 Apr 9
Reply by TONY BRYAN

Plectrum

It seems to me that the same concert banjoists that played classic style also played plectrum. I know I'm going to focus on classic style f…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

9 Apr 8
Reply by Richard William Ineson

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