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Playing Since: 1967
Experience Level: Purty Good
Don Borchelt has made 411 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 
Occupation: Retired, and not bored yet.
Gender: Male
Age: 59
My Instruments:
Vega tubaphone, semi fretless neck;
Paramount, semi-fretless neck, short-scale;
Paramount, semi-fretless neck, standard scale;
Fairbanks Whyte Laydie;
Gibson Mastertone 1928 TB-3 with Liberty conversion neck;
two other Mastertone clones and another Tubaphone.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Flatt & Scruggs, Stanley Brothers, Don Reno and Red Smiley, Roy Acuff and the Smokey Mountain Boys, Mississippi John Hurt, Dave Akeman, Tommy Jarrell, Tommy Jackson, Howdy Forrester, Carroll Best, Bill Keith, Alan Munde, and of course, my pals Ed Britt, Jim Reed, and Don Couchie.
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Created 11/4/2005
Last Visit 9/3/2010
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Size: 1,443kb, uploaded 1/7/2010 5:14:41 PM
Genre: Old Time
Ed Britt and I recorded this a couple of nights ago, after a long hiatus, so that I could post it for this week's Tune of the Week. My tubaphone is sounding a little punky, but as a famous American once said, you go to war with the weapons you got, not the weapons you want. I'm in Open D, Ed is in Double C up 2.
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Size: 4,241kb, uploaded 2/25/2007 10:26:21 PM
Genre: Old Time
This was my first attempt with my new Tascam US-122 USB audio interface, and I'm still learning how to use the software and all. The clawhammer picker is my long time buddy Ed Britt. He and I always wander around on this one. I'm picking three finger style in open D tuning, Ed is playing clawhammer style in double C, up 2.
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Size: 4,366kb, uploaded 5/16/2009 5:47:13 AM
Genre: Old Time
Another recording with Brian Clancey and Tom Speth, made about ten or twelve years ago. We experimented a lot with blending three-finger style banjo with finger style guitar picking, all pretty spontaneous interweaving of the two sounds. Brian had his guitar in an open tuning, as I recall, really sweet.
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Play count: 416
Size: 4,500kb, uploaded 8/9/2010 2:31:45 PM
Genre: Old Time
Made this recording at Clifftop, 2010, with my pals Don Couchie and Jim Reed. They are two phenomenal pickers. Jim is playing his 1925 ball-bearing Mastertone, Don is playing Chip Arnold's 1969 Baldwin. I'm using my 1964 Ode. Jim and I are playing three-finger style, while Don is playing clawhammer style.
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Size: 3,004kb, uploaded 3/2/2007 11:03:26 AM
Genre: Old Time
"Farmer, does this road go to Little Rock?" I was still learning the Cubase LE software that came bundled with the Tascam interface when we recorded this. I'm picking my semi-fretless tubaphone, Ed, of course, his Ome. I'm tuned to open D, Ed is in double C up 2. "Stranger, that road don't go anywhere, it just lays there."
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Size: 3,865kb, uploaded 6/13/2009 10:00:59 AM
Genre: Old Time
This is another recording of the Wry Whiskey amalgamation with Richie Chaisson on resophonic guitar and the late Gene Ketelhohn on guitar, recorded in early 1999. I am playing my semi-fretless Paramount in open D tuning.
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Size: 1,301kb, uploaded 9/7/2009 8:19:10 PM
Genre: Old Time
Another recording from Clifftop 2009, with my BHO pal Don Couchie. Don is picking banjo on this one, clawhammer style, and I am picking my tubaphone in Open D tuning, three finger style.
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Size: 2,387kb, uploaded 7/14/2009 3:41:30 AM
Genre: Old Time
This is a tape I made back in the mid-80s. The guitar player is Jim Murphy, who at the time was a graduate student at MIT. I've lost touch with Jim, last I heard he was working at Hannaford. The banjo is tuned in double C, gCGCD.
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Size: 1,409kb, uploaded 5/8/2009 4:05:51 AM
Genre: Old Time
This is a practice tape from a decade ago, made with my friends Brian Clancey and Tom Speth; we called ourselves Wry Whiskey. Brian now performs with fiddler Robin Warren as Spirit Fiddle. The banjo is tuned in open D, aDF#AD.
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Play count: 340
Size: 2,556kb, uploaded 12/19/2009 7:08:24 AM
Genre: Old Time
After hearing Gabe Hirshfeld (banjo1930) play a terrific version of this the other night on the Chat, I remembered I had a Wry Whiskey recording of this around somewhere. This was recorded in 1998, with Brian Clancey on guitar. The banjo is tuned to open D (aDF#AD). I liked Gabe's version better, but I still like this one, too.
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Size: 1,411kb, uploaded 7/1/2009 4:33:40 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
Okay, chicken pickin' lovers, I dug up this ten year old recording of this poultry classic, from the time I was playing with a group called Wry Whiskey. The reso picker assisting with the cackling part is Richie Chaisson, who now plays with the Boston area group The Pine Hill Ramblers. I was picking my semi-fretless Paramount, which had a neck that I made myself. Genuine barnyard bluegrass, to whet your appetite. Let's cook that hen!
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Play count: 1505
Size: 1,582kb, uploaded 5/4/2007 4:32:34 PM
Genre: Old Time
Another chicken pickin' tune, the Chicken Reel is probably the oldest, and certainly the archetype, the one all other chicken tunes are compared to. The world will never have enough barnyard bluegrass. I am in open D, three finger style, Ed Britt is playing clawhammer style in double C, up 2.
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Size: 1,463kb, uploaded 11/8/2006 7:43:42 AM
Genre: Old Time
Child Grove is a very old English dance tune that Ed Britt got from, uhm, somewhere. My banjo is tuned aDGAD, the open D version of sawmill tuning. Ed is playing in double C, capo on 2. Sally in the Garden goes well with it, and Ed puts in a few notes at the end of each part on that one that I kind of fake my way through.
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Size: 1,358kb, uploaded 8/29/2010 7:37:43 AM
Genre: Old Time
Early Sunday morning, it was time to pack up and leave, after a full week of good Clifftop picking. Don Couchie was heading down to Galax, and I was starting the long drive back to Boston. Jim Reed had already gotten up very early and headed back home before either of us had woken up. As the last of the gear got stowed away, Don and I sat down for one last tune, Cookhouse Joe, an old-time fiddle tune from Southeastern Kentucky. On the way out, we stopped at the Lodge to eat up the last of the biscuits and gravy. Until next year...
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Play count: 1972
Size: 1,903kb, uploaded 9/11/2008 10:29:30 PM
Genre: Old Time
As long as I can still hold a banjo in my tired old hands, if I can still play this tune, I will be okay with it. This is the tune that got me hooked on picking, and it is still the best banjo tune there is, and I'm not afraid to say so. This is our take on it, Ed Britt and me, and we hope you like it. I'm playing my new old Ode, and Ed is picking his Ome, and we are both in open G tuning. Recorded on my Tascam DR-1, no fancy microphones, nothing.
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Play count: 2047
Size: 2,970kb, uploaded 5/28/2009 4:17:20 PM
Genre: Old Time
Well, since you all tolerated my singing on that last one, I thought I'd post another from my days some ten years ago picking with Brian Clancey and Tom Speth. This is not your 'grass Fireball Mail, I'm afraid. Brian is playing finger style guitar here, a sound I really like with three-finger style banjo. Banjo is a semi-fretless Paramount in open D.
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Size: 2,287kb, uploaded 10/28/2008 8:55:54 PM
Genre: Old Time
Ed Britt is a big fan of Fennig's All Star String Band, an Albany based old-time band that featured Bill Spence on hammered dulcimer, and BHO's own John Pederson on banjo. Gaspe Reel was used as the theme for the PBS show "Crockett's Victory Garden," where a lot of Americans first learned the proper care of a tomato plant. I am three-finger picking in open D, Ed is clawhammering in double C up two.
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Size: 2,350kb, uploaded 11/17/2007 6:46:26 AM
Genre: Old Time
I got interested in learning this tune after hearing Lyle Konigsburg's great version here on the BHO jukebox. Ed is playing his Ome, double C tuning capoed on the 2nd fret, I'm using my semi-fretless tubaphone conversion, in open D tuning. Ed has pointed out the similarity between the A part of this tune and the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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Size: 3,796kb, uploaded 5/22/2008 10:36:10 PM
Genre: Old Time
I just learned this tune from Jon Gersh and Kathy Fletcher, two fine Boston area old time musicians, but it turns out Ed already knew it! Dang know it all! Ed is picking his Ome, in sawmill, capo on 2, I am using my short scale Paramount, tuned aEABE.
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Play count: 282
Size: 2,621kb, uploaded 8/9/2010 2:28:53 PM
Genre: Old Time
Made this recording at Clifftop, 2010, with my pals Don Couchie and Jim Reed. They are two phenomenal pickers. Jim is playing his 1925 ball-bearing Mastertone, Don is playing Chip Arnold's 1969 Baldwin. I'm using my 1964 Ode. Jim just picked this up a few minutes before I recorded the session. Jim and I are playing three-finger style, while Don is playing clawhammer style.
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Size: 1,473kb, uploaded 10/26/2006 7:03:08 AM
Genre: Old Time
Another duet with Ed, not the Ralph Stanley tune, the other Hard Times, written by a guy named Foster. Open D Tuning (aDF#AD). This has a nice harmony part in it 'bout halfway through it.
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Size: 3,172kb, uploaded 9/7/2008 6:52:20 AM
Genre: Old Time
Ed Britt and I went up to the Lowell Fiddle and Banjo Contest yesterday, and brought the remnants of hurricane Hannah with us. The contest was driven inside the high school, which cut down on the jamming. We did have a nice session with fiddler Barkev Kaligian, from Lexington, Mass. This is us playing in a hallway between the lockers and water bubblers. The recording is a little "boomy" as a result, but I hope still fun to listen to. This is the Stephen Foster Hard Times, recorded on my Tascam DR-1. I am playing my "new" 1964 Ode that Ed uncovered for me. I haven't put a semi-fretless plate on it- yet.
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Size: 2,473kb, uploaded 5/10/2007 8:28:41 AM
Genre: Old Time
I learned this one mostly off the Hangout Jukebox, thanks guys. Britt already knew it, but he still had to remember it. My tubaphone is in open D, Ed's Ome is double C up 2.
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Size: 4,201kb, uploaded 3/16/2007 7:55:48 AM
Genre: Old Time
Another good old tune with Ed playing clawhammer style on his Ome, and me playing three finger style on my short-neck Paramount. Ed is in open G, capoed on 2. My banjo is tuned aEABE. The original recording was seven minutes long, so I cut it about in half. Too bad, it got much weirder as we went on.
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Size: 3,090kb, uploaded 11/5/2008 6:17:18 AM
Genre: Old Time
This is another one of the tunes everyone learned from Henry Reed. The first part is in A mixolydian mode, which sounds major, sort of, because it has a major third interval. The second part is A Dorian, or possibly A minor (Aeoleon), and has a minor third. I am playing my Ode three finger style in a G variant tuning, gDGAD, Ed is playing his Ome clawhammer style, I believe in sawmill.
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Size: 3,698kb, uploaded 11/12/2008 7:13:14 AM
Genre: Old Time
Ed and I try our hand at a popular French Canadian tune, in the key of D. I am playing 3 finger style in open D, Ed is playing clawhammer style in double C, capoed on 2.
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Play count: 373
Size: 3,010kb, uploaded 8/2/2009 5:29:48 PM
Genre: Old Time
I just returned from Clifftop, where I had the honor and pleasure of camping next to BHO member Don Couchie, from North Bay, Ontario. We swapped tunes for most of the week. Don is an extremely talented picker, and can pick up a new tune far faster and better than I can. He had only played Last Chance on the fiddle for just a few minutes of warm up before I turned on the recorder. Just plain amazing. My Paramount semi-fretless is tuned aEABE.
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Size: 2,874kb, uploaded 10/31/2009 1:57:18 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
Well, there are some Richie Chaisson fans lurking out there, I just found out, so I rooted around my old digital files and found this recording of Liza Jane that Wry Whiskey recorded off the PA system, playing at a street fair one summer evening around 1999. Richie is on resophonic guitar, the late Gene Ketelhohn is picking guitar, and Tom Speth is on bass. I am playing my semi-fretless Paramount in open D tuning.
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Size: 3,620kb, uploaded 1/29/2009 8:51:51 PM
Genre: Old Time
Ed Britt and I try our hand at this old Texas waltz. I am playing my semi-fretless Tubaphone, in open D tuning, Ed is playing his Ome, in double C, capoed on the second fret.
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Size: 2,678kb, uploaded 1/24/2009 5:23:45 AM
Genre: Old Time
I ran across this recording on my hard drive, from a jam Ed Britt and I had at Clifftop 2008 with fiddler/banjo picker Jim Costa, who is best known for his excellent Uncle Dave repertoire. You can really hear Ed's clawhammer picking on this one. This was outdoors under a tree, so you will have to forgive the occasional car driving by, and the conversations in the background. Ed had to surrender his natural VII chord on this one in favor of the old-timey V chord. When in Rome...
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Size: 1,820kb, uploaded 4/10/2010 6:08:51 AM
Genre: Old Time
Don Couchie and I recorded this one evening at Clifftop last year, sitting around at our campsite. I didn't post it before this, because Don's elegant clawhammer picking, just perfect in person, didn't come through with enough volume on my little Tascam DR-1 for some reason. I have played with the levels a little bit to bring it out front more, and have uploaded it now for my contribution to the Tune of the Week for 4/9/10. I am playing in open D tuning on my Tubaphone; and I believe Don was in double C tuning capoed on 2, playing the metal rimmed banjo he borrowed from Reed Martin.
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Size: 3,091kb, uploaded 3/6/2010 5:38:24 AM
Genre: Old Time
Ed Britt and I made this recording in my living room some years ago, but I'm uploading it now for the Tune of the Week for 3/5/10. My three finger version was inspired- believe it or not- by Wade Ward's classic clawhammer version. I am playing my semi-fretless Paramount in open G tuning, and Ed is playing his Ome clawhammer style.
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Size: 3,321kb, uploaded 5/16/2010 6:09:37 AM
Genre: Old Time
The full title is Old Yeller Dog Came Trottiin' Through the Meeting House. Best I can tell, this tune comes from Charlie Acuff. The A part's similarity to Old Gray Mare is not coincidental. Anyway, this was recorded on my DR1 at the Monday night old time jam session at Sandy's Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The fiddle player is Mike Roguska. Mike first turned me onto this tune at the jam session a week or two before. The guitar player's name is George; I don't remember his last name, but I enjoyed picking with him. This is usually fiddled in G, but Mike plays it in A, so I used my short-scale, semi-fretless Paramount, tuned aEABE, which is a G variant tuning (gDGAD) tuned up a whole step.
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Size: 1,868kb, uploaded 8/16/2010 4:27:13 AM
Genre: Old Time
Another tune from the marathon Clifftop banjo jam session involving Jim Reed, Don Couchie, and myself. Jim and I are both playing three finger style banjo, and Don is on guitar, I think.
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Size: 3,012kb, uploaded 6/7/2009 8:36:46 PM
Genre: Bluegrass
This tune is from a later version of Wry Whiskey, with Richie Chaisson playing reso-guitar, and Gene Ketelhohn playing guitar. Tom Speth is on bass, and I am playing my semi-fretless Paramount, in open D tuning. We were playing on stage somewhere, around 1999, I would guess, but I don't remember where.
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Size: 1,996kb, uploaded 6/19/2009 5:14:19 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
I ran across this MP3 on my harddrive, looking for something else. It's a recording from my brief stint as a bluegrass banjo picker with the Boston area band Adam Dewey and Crazy Creek. Adam was on mandolin, the great Lincoln Meyers is the astonishing guitar picker, and Brad Wheeler is on base. This was taped around 1995, I think it was a radio appearance.
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Size: 1,983kb, uploaded 8/13/2010 4:41:47 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
Another recording from my West Virginia sleep over with Don Couchie and Jim Reed. Jim is doing the picking front and center on his 25 ball-bearing, a real killer banjo. This was tons of fun, even if the rest of the festival began calling our campsite "banjo hell."
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Size: 2,220kb, uploaded 3/14/2010 7:52:40 PM
Genre: Old Time
BHO member Don Couchie came to Boston for a visit, and we sat right down and started picking. This is the first thing we recorded, with my little Tascam DR-1. I am playing my Tubaphone, and the other Don is on the fiddle. This is a pretty Kentucky fiddle tune attributed to John Sayler. My arrangement is inspired by Adam Hurt's wonderful version.
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Size: 3,101kb, uploaded 5/11/2009 8:21:07 PM
Genre: Old Time
Well, rummaging around some of my old files, I came across this practice recording that I made ten or twelve years ago with Brian Clancey and Tom Speth. I don't claim to be a good singer, but there are some pleasant moments in this that I thought were worth sharing. The banjo is tuned to open D, what else is new.
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Size: 2,713kb, uploaded 8/21/2010 11:57:22 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
Taped at our Clifftop campsite, Jim Reed, Don Couchie, and myself. At the end of this, Jim says "I ain't played that damn thing in a year's time," but he sure fooled me. Jim is balling the jack on this, I'm seconding his lead, trying to keep up with that 25 ball bearing cannonball! On this one, Couchie is definitely on guitar. I think...
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Size: 2,756kb, uploaded 10/17/2008 6:45:43 PM
Genre: Old Time
Or is it, maybe, Sally Ann? I just don't know anymore. Another tune with Ed Britt playing clawhammer style, tuned in open G. I am me three finger picking, tuned gDGAD.
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Size: 2,431kb, uploaded 8/19/2010 11:55:41 AM
Genre: Old Time
I first learned this tune at the Clifftop festival in 2009, from Robyn Treatman and Mike Burns, two wonderful fiddlers from Oregon. The I went and forgot most of it, but I learned it again from a bunch of folks at this years Clifftop. I showed it to Don Couchie, who picked it up on fiddle in no time.
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Size: 2,097kb, uploaded 5/26/2008 9:07:53 AM
Genre: Old Time
I still think of this as the quintessential old time fiddle tune. I'm picking this on my short scale Paramount, tunes aEAC#E (open G up 2), and Ed is picking his OME, open G up 2. Ragged but mostly right.
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Size: 4,241kb, uploaded 3/17/2007 1:10:49 PM
Genre: Old Time
Well, Ed and I couldn't decide whether to play the conventional version of Shady Grove, or the really neat Henry Reed version, so we combined them both. It ends with a simple round, kind of nice. I'm playing my short neck Paramount, tuned aEABE. Ed is picking in sawmill, capo on second fret.
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Size: 1,794kb, uploaded 8/17/2010 9:18:20 AM
Genre: Old Time
Another recording on my Tascam DR-1 from Banjo Hell Road, Geezer Hill, Clifftop, West Virginia, with Don Couchie and Jim Reed. This recording really features Don Couchie, who is clawhammering the heck out of Chip Arnold's 69 Baldwin at breakneck speed. I didn't think this was humanly possible. Awesome playing, Don. Jim and I are playing three-finger style; Jim is on that tremendous 25 ball-bearing of his, and I'm picking my demure little 64 Ode.
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Size: 4,328kb, uploaded 2/27/2010 5:14:49 AM
Genre: Old Time
I've uploaded this as part of my contribution to the TOTW for 2/26/10. This is a recording from an outdoor jam session at the 2008 Clifftop festival, made with my little hand held Tascam DR-1. Please forgive the wind noise and static, and the fact that the banjo is just slightly out of tune. Sometimes you just have to do the best you can and jump in with what you got. Ed Britt and I were jamming with Jimmy Costa, who is just an all around terrific musician, and a truly authentic Uncle Dave interpreter. I was playing my Fairbanks Whyte Laydie in Open D tuning.
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Size: 1,220kb, uploaded 2/27/2010 5:09:50 AM
Genre: Old Time
I've uploaded this also as part of my contribution to the TOTW for 2/26/10. This is a tape I made around 1985, one of my first experiments in overdubbing. Back then, I played the tune in Standard C tuning (gCGBD), and capoed on the 2nd fret when I wanted to play with a fiddler.
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Size: 2,735kb, uploaded 8/7/2009 3:34:57 PM
Genre: Old Time
Another tune from my Clifftop picking with BHO member Don Couchie, who plays just the kind of fiddle playing I like to hear. This was just plain great fun. The Paramount semi-fretless banjo is tuned to open A tuning (aEAC#E).
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Size: 2,715kb, uploaded 10/23/2008 3:34:32 PM
Genre: Old Time
Sugar in the Gourd is one of those old tunes that at one time was in just about every fiddler's repertoire, no matter what part of the country, in the same category as Arkansas Traveler, Sally Goodin, Turkey in the Straw, and Ragtime Annie. I am picking my '64; Ode in standard G, Ed is c'hammering his Ome, also standard G.
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Size: 2,236kb, uploaded 2/3/2009 4:57:20 AM
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A favorite old warhorse that I never tire or playing. Ed Britt is picking his OME clawhammer style, in double C tuning capo on the 2nd fret. I am using my semi-fretless Tubaphone, in open D tuning, three finger style.
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Size: 3,740kb, uploaded 9/26/2008 5:34:00 AM
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This old time tune was composed by California clawhammer picker Curt Bouterse. I learned it from Ed, who is playing his Ome. capoed up 2 in double C tuning. I am using my new Ode, in open D.
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Size: 2,243kb, uploaded 7/2/2010 6:56:41 AM
Genre: Old Time
This is my contribution to the TOTW for 6/26/10, just a week late. I am playing my 64 Ode, without fingerpicks. The banjo is tuned gDGAD, capoed on the second fret. I just learned this a few weeks ago from Stephen Bland, a fine fiddle and banjo player from Rochester, New York, at the Black Creek Fiddler's Reunion. I recorded it on my Tascam DR-1.
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by Don Borchelt
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Size: 1,748kb, uploaded 8/30/2009 6:48:17 AM
Genre: Old Time
Another old Wry Whiskey recording, with Brian Clancey on guitar and Tom Speth on bass. This would have been recorded around 1997 or 1998. The banjo is tuned in double C (gCGCD), a tuning that I used a lot more back then than I do now. I gotta do something about that.
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by Don Borchelt
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Size: 1,208kb, uploaded 9/26/2009 4:43:40 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
My contribution to the BHO "tune of the week" for 9/26/09. This was recorded in 1998 by Wry Whiskey, a trio I was in then with Brian Clancey on guitar and Tom Speth on bass. The banjo is my semi-fretless Paramount, tuned to open D (aDF#AD).
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by Don Borchelt
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Size: 2,452kb, uploaded 7/9/2010 4:29:05 AM
Genre: Bluegrass
This is another living room recording from around 1998, with the trio we called Wry Whiskey. I ran across this recording of the old Carter Family/Flatt & Scruggs standard when I was looking for something else. The guitar player is Brian Clancey, and the bass player is Tom Speth. It takes a brave boy to play You Are My Flower on banjo. Okay, I don't exactly sing like Lester, neither.
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