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Jacobs Banjo Collection Vol 3 Clean Scan

Last night I scanned the Jacobs Banjo Collection #3 so that the print is dark and easy to read and use. This finally replaces all the older…

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

7 Jul 25
Reply by Trapdoor2

Les Hirondelles (The Swallows)..1899..Gustav Lange

This a very melodious composition in 6/8 time by the German Composer Gustav Lange. Lange composed many salon tunes for piano of which this…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Jul 25

Farland's Etudes

Has no one realized that encoded in Farland's banjo method Is the ability to voice lead on the banjo neck in all 24 keys? Not only that, bu…

Started by Austin in Classic Banjo

9 Jul 22
Reply by Austin

Belle Of The Creoles..1899..Harry.P.Guy

This is a well written early cake walk. I've made quite a few amendments including stripping down many of the chords to make it more banjo…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Jul 20

Scam, scam... Spam, spam or no scam/spam?????

We are being innundated with Membership requests! I have been very strict on ALL requests and insist that members follow the "registration…

Started by thereallyniceman in Classic Banjo

2 Jul 19
Reply by IAN SALTER

Zarh Bickford's Unplayable Chords?

Here is a nice piece that has me scratching my head. The bits circled in red are, as far as I can determine, unplayable.  In the third meas…

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

23 Jul 17
Reply by Jody Stecher

A Patriotic Fantasie Bickford Lesson 93 & 94

I've been going through this correspondence course and enjoying it.  I have been (slowly) making recordings of Bickford's Banjo Player's Fa…

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

0 Jul 15

National Colors Rag..1917..Marcella A. Henry.

Marcella Henry was involved in Axel Christensen's piano teaching schools in Chicago. This tune was taken from Vol.3 of The Ragtime Review,…

Started by Steve Harrison in Classic Banjo

0 Jul 14

U. S. School Of Music Banjo Course, Lessons 49 To 96

Here is an interesting work, it is a correspondence course for the banjo.  I am fairly certain that it was written by Zarh Myron Bickford. …

Started by Joel Hooks in Classic Banjo

3 Jul 12
Reply by Francky Algoedt

Alex Magee Plays `Canadian Capers`

To help celebrate Canada's 158th birthday today, Alex Magee plays his arrangement of this lively piece, accompanied by Karen Magee. They we…

Started by Shawn McSweeny in Classic Banjo

31 Jul 12
Reply by Shawn McSweeny

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