Deering Parlor banjo
Does anyone have experience with this particular banjo. It is the Goodtime with a shorter neck. I have owned 3 or 4 Goodtimes and they were excellent banjos. I still own one that I practice on. I...
View Articlebanjo poem
The Grain of Sound by Robert Morgan A banjo maker in the mountains, when looking out for wood to carve an instrument, will walk among the trees and knock on trunks. He'll hit the bark and listen for a...
View ArticleFrench Toast
My wife and I have always eaten French toast differently. In her family, they treated French toast like pancakes and poured maple syrup over them. My family always treated French toast like...
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Dream, dream/ banjo sing a long :)
http://youtu.be/dPC4ko_twqk Here's a link to the Youtube It's also on my video page here at BHO. Just click on my homepage here and click on videos. Happy Valentine's Day :) Mary Z Cox maryzcox.com
View ArticleAn acquaintance of mine..
Is ah retired guy livin on assisted livin.....He showed me tha letter of his benahfit amounts...from tha state of ct taday...$1.00...........total cost .38¢....just ta mail....it...fer tha stamp..He's...
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Piper To The End
About 3 months ago when I started playing slide I tired Piper To The End ... for about 30 seconds ... it was one of those "yeah, in your dreams" moments. The arrangement is a bit more rock than a...
View ArticleRefurbished Piccolo Banjo
I recently refurbished an old no-name piccolo banjo. A previous owner had embellished it with all sorts of plastic and glass doo-dads. It really was gaudy, and the work was very sloppy. Divots had...
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If I collected autographs - - -
I'd definitely want this one, and pasted to those old wires and wood. Yea, yea, I know - - - It's not a banjo, but still - - - -
View ArticleBanjo Project Completed
I just finished (and delivered) a banjo yesterday and I'm still pretty excited about the way it turned out and the way the customer reacted. I was going for a certain look/sound/feel and it turned...
View ArticleStromberg-Voisnet Tuning pegs
I recently bought an old Stromberg-Voisnet Tenor banjo. The resonator is incomplete and the tuners were old. I'm going to recondition it as a open back tenor. I removed the old tuners and before I...
View ArticleVinyl To CD
If anyone has good vinyl 33 rpm albums and would like to convert them to cd, I found a place here in Phoenix that is doing my Foggy Mountain Banjo album for $15, and that includes the disc, album...
View ArticleTrap Door conversion
This question has probably been asked before , Is it possible to do a conversion on a Gibson Trapdoor? OR has anyone done it ? I don't read much about them anywhere,
View ArticleMy new Baby! Banjo-Mandolin
Hi, Any and all comments welcome. I picked up this darling 7 inch pot, 8 string, 18 fret banjo mandolin on ebay. Her little skin is torn and she has some split lines on the fingerboard and her...
View ArticleTemperance Reel
Traditional irish reel "Temperance Reel" - also known as "Teetotaler's Fancy" or "Road to Newbridge" - played on the 5 string banjo - GDGBD tuning for key of G.
View ArticlePearl inlay & engraving class
Just wanted to let people know that in July Pete Ross and I are teaching a week long class on pearl inlay and engraving at the Augusta Heritage Arts Center in Elkins WV....
View ArticleFor Sale Janet Davis, Splitting the Licks DVD
Check out the classified if interested. Thanks, Brian
View ArticleFor Sale, Stelling Banjos Jean Jacket
Check out the classified if interested. 80 bucks Thanks, Brian
View ArticleFor Sale, 4 Waverly tuners
Check out the classifieds if interested. 80 bucks, shipped to the lower 48 states. Thanks, Brian
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