Minstrel Banjo - For enthusiasts of early banjo

For enthusiasts of early banjo

A resource and gathering site for people interested in playing and constructing early banjos, and the history of minstrel music in America.

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Bully For All/ St. Patrick's Day.

Added by Carl Anderton
Dan Emmit gets a little funky...

Added by Carl Anderton
Early Black Banjo Piece

Added by Tim Twiss

Events

Kevin Royer-Beltone Hearing Aid Centers Present Bob Welch & Songs of the Civil War

November 9, 2009 from 2pm to 3pm – Valley View Manor
Kevin Royer-Beltone Hearing Aid Centers Present Bob Welch & Songs of the Civil War

November 16, 2009 from 2pm to 3pm – Gray's Nursing Home

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Carl Anderton replied to Jeff Menzies's discussion 'Clarke Buehling Tackhead Banjo for Sale'

That is a sharp lookin' axe. It won't stay on the inventory shelf, I s'pect.

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Jeff Menzies added a discussion

Clarke Buehling Tackhead Banjo for Sale

For Sale: http://menziesinstruments.com/content/clarke-buehling-boucher-tackhead-banjo

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deuceswilde replied to Ian Bell's discussion 'Uncle Dave Macon'

Page 18, "Eighth Lesson" I think. I have not really played with Rice too much. Perhaps I should give the book a run through.

on Friday

Len Entrabartolo left a comment for Greg Adams

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Greg Adams replied to Ian Bell's discussion 'Uncle Dave Macon'

Similarly, Phil Rice, word-for-word, explains how to bring the right arm across the neck of the banjo as another point of gymnastic variation. I can't remember which page, but it explains how to do it at the 3rd or 5th position[?] and the 10th pos...

on Friday

Len Entrabartolo posted the link Music of the Antebellum and Civil War

on Friday

Carl Anderton replied to Ian Bell's discussion 'Uncle Dave Macon'

I think it was originally called Sangalli Dance. So anyway, banjo juggling goes back at least to 1863, and continued via Uncle Dave Macon into the mid-twentieth century.

on Friday

Carl Anderton replied to Ian Bell's discussion 'Uncle Dave Macon'

An interesting side-note to this piece, which is of course meant to played guitar-style--Clarke Buehling has found a copy of this and "Spanish Fandango," published in 1863, which he thinks is the earliest piece of single-sheet banjo music publishe...

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Fred Marshe left a comment for Lee Callicutt

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Ian Bell replied to Ian Bell's discussion 'Uncle Dave Macon'

Very cool - thank you. I haven't taken the time to really read the music, but the banjo swinging directions sure look like what UDM does in some of those old film clips of him as an old man in the 40s.

on Friday

deuceswilde replied to Ian Bell's discussion 'Uncle Dave Macon'

on Friday

Ian Bell added a discussion

Uncle Dave Macon

I've stumbled into the early banjo woods recently so forgive me if this question is too obvious. I just watched that dandy clip of Clarke Buehling in the video section and when he spun the banjo it made me wonder - "Where does Uncle Dave Macon fit...

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