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Repertoire advice? Early banjo pieces that show African influence?

Hi everyone--really enjoying everyone's videos and high level discourse, a relative rarity online these days, it seems! Anyway, sorry if th…

Started by Jared Denhard

1894 stroke recording?

I heisted this link from Dan Gellert's posting on the Banjohangout...very cool recording. Y'all think it might be stroke/thimble style?   c…

Started by Trapdoor2

Jim Hartel Boucher for sale

I can’t find just now, but someone had a Hatell Boucher to sell.  I’ve been playing the password game far a while, and finally seem to have…

Started by jim atleson

Strum Machine

Has anyone tried using Strum Machine? I just signed up for a free trial and am enjoying it, especially because I don't play with others and…

Started by Al Smitley

Dave Kirchner's Original Giant Early Tambourine (20 inches)

Started by Mark Weems

On Picayune Butler, T. A. Brown, George Nichols, T. D, Rice and “Jim Crow”

About 7 years ago, prodded by a contract from Oxford University Press and Harvard's  African American biography database,  I set out to wri…

Started by Tony Thomas

Why Ethiopians?

I'm hoping someone can offer insights that escape me.  It seems that Ethiopia gained a lot of reference in the mid-19th C minstrel genre...…

Started by Al Smitley

JEB Stuart

I don't know if it's good or whether Sam Sweeney might be mentioned but a program about JEB Stuart airs several times on CSPAN2 this weeken…

Started by Al Smitley

CDV of Swain Buckley on ebay...

Pretty cool CDV up on ebay at the moment. Oddball banjo with 2 chanterelles, 22 inlaid frets. Pretty reasonable dating via the photographer…

Started by Trapdoor2