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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

William Avery Turner

An acquaintance of mine has recently come into possession of a fretless banjo with the neck stamped William Avery Turner, London.  I am try…

Started by Daniel Bradbury in Classic Banjo

2 Oct 27, 2020
Reply by Daniel Bradbury

You're A Grand Old Flag (1906)..George M. Cohan.

This is another of Cohan's well known songs and one that was suggested by Richard. It's a very 'busy' arrangement and you have to be a bit…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Oct 25, 2020

Yankee Doodle Boy (Yankee Doodle Dandy) 1904...George M. Cohan.

After Richard mentioned his liking for the music of Cohan, I browsed through some of his compositions and wrote this barnstorming arrangeme…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

2 Oct 23, 2020
Reply by Steve Harrison

name that tune please

I have just been listening to the Tony Lidington radio documentary called Pierrot Hero, very good it is too, curious if anybody can tell me…

Started by nick Kelly in Classic Banjo

17 Oct 21, 2020
Reply by Richard William Ineson

1881 H.C. Dobson silver bell banjo from H.R.H Prince of Wales

About one of the most important banjos in the Hamamatsu City Musical Instrument Museum, from the Reuben Reubens collection to the T…

Started by Satoshi Hara in Classic Banjo

3 Oct 21, 2020
Reply by Richard William Ineson

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