Hi Really Nice Man,  you must teach your wife how to play Banjo, I reckon she could be playing second parts quite quickley then you could play duets like Eric and Pat.   Also she could become a member of this site and perhaps mine would not be the only female voice heard  :-)  

Thanks Ian, that's very generous of you. I'll have to dig out my "to-play" list (which is getting longer by the minute...) and see what I can extort, err... I mean, nicely ask for :)

I'm very happy with the sound of my banjo, by the way, now that I've converted it somewhat. The Renaissnace head and Chris Sands heavies give it a booming tone which is almost worthy of the old killing machines, and I'm getting some nice, thunderous bass notes with the appropriate picking technique. Gotta love how Bill Ball played those thunderous bass notes!

Thank you for your welcome.  Initially what I really want to know is what banjo I have - see my photos.  After that, if you can turn me into a competant banjo player, I will be very impressed and very gratefull!

Hello Ian!

I've posted some more photos of myn banjo.

Hopefully you or one of your members can give me some idea of its worth.

Hi Ian

Many thanks for the welcome. It looks like a really useful resource. I am still finding my way around at the moment so please please let me know if I post in the wrong place or mess anything up.

Trevor

Thanks, Ian. You can call me anything you like. I get called all sorts of things when I play. I'm third generation bad banjoist -- my father and grandfather annoyed people with music as well.

I just received my first zither banjo today (two weeks ago, I didn't know there was such a thing). It needs a little tender loving care (and identification -- I haven't find one like it online so far).

I'm finding the layout of Ning a little confusing. Are there sections for various topics, or do we all just prattle in our own blog section and hope for responses?

Thank you Ian, I look forward to your beginners section and will continue to check in as I have in the last few weeks. I do have loads of questions which maybe best kept and asked in the beginners section but I must say how much I have enjoyed the video contrabutions and am amazed that somehow I have only learned of this wonderful style of banjo playing in the last few weeks on this forum. My only newbie question would be at this point is what is the minimum kit requirements to start to play classic banjo?

Regards Pam

hi  very nice man i cant  seem to down  load  any of  your great lessons i pressed the link below vidios  sent computer  into orbit  what am i doing wrong can any body help  thanks Alan

Hi Alan,

We have not had any problems reported with downloads! Which Lesson are  you having trouble with?

What should happen is:

First scroll across to the  Lesson you want to watch and click on the Picture. This opens a new page to view the video Lesson. At the RHS of the video, and at the bottom is the References and downloads link. Clicking that LINK will download a .PDF file to your computer's downloads folder. It make take some time on a slow connection as the "Fingering Exercises" videos have several megabytes of Tutor Books attached.  I have tested here and it works as expected!

Good Luck and let me know please.

Ian, thereallyniceman

hi Ian i have been trying to practice Dolly Gray lots of bit practice on this one the mp3 is great i know your a very very busy man but could this be the way forward for us learners kind regards Alan

hi reallyniceman im to wondering if to change the head on my clifford essex  i think it has the original skin on it i am not sure what they mean by flat head what do you recommend that i order regards Alan

Hi Ian ,where is the chip and pin .Iwould like to donate to your site,I a bit dim when it comes to computers .what do i do .regards Alan