"Hello Mike, I've enjoyed reading your posts. Sharpe also published a list of the British banjo methods in the B.M.G. I'm too old and feeble to search for the pages myself but they came under the heading 'Banjo Methods' in the…"

"BMG December 1961 has a list of Tutor Books. There is also this document -  Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology Volume 5 | Issue 1 Article 6 Schools for the Banjo: A Primary Source Study of Nineteenth-Century Banjo…"

"That was exactly my thought when I read it. Ebony capped bridges tend to make nylgut sound weak. Is CE operating again? I thought they closed down."

"Great stuff, Mike! Thanks alot."

"The starting point for the answer to this question must surely lie in the pages of the B.M.G. magazine and A.P.Sharpe's articles listing the various banjo tutor books which were to form part of his book which he never completed/published due to…"

"Another thing you could try is using unplated steel strings for the 1st,2nd,and fifth string. This is what Cammeyer used and sold, he claimed that the plating altered the tone of the strings."

"He was either a Wiener or a Weiner - LOL. I can’t remember off hand. But, yes, judging by his program, he must have been a virtuoso. "

"Yes, sort of. I put together a program with music from different times on different instruments. A made a short video to present to the people who gave me the grant. After that nothing more happened and I have been busy with other things…"

"Did this project ever get realised, Pär? I'm reminded of Early Music concerts with more instruments on stage than audience members! Audiences grew when performers stopped lecturing. That's my experience, anyway. I was actually…"

"LOL. At least you tried, Pär. It's the best way to learn anything. "

"Good question. No answers. Surely someone here has a rough idea at least? Just to get the ball rolling. "

"Yes, you are absolutely right, Steve. Sorry about that!"

"Yes! Sadly, you guys in the UK had to learn that the hard way... :-("

"I might be considered young regarding this sublect, at the tender age of 46....But I have too much on my plate already and I have absolutely no qualification. And I live in the wrong country...."

"Thanks alot, Rob! The cat always steals the show... :-)"

"There's truth in that! Although, as being mainly active in the early music scene, I always cringe a bit when I hear about old instruments being "improved" to stand up to modern ideals. Specially lots of old three stringed basses being…"