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Occupation: Owner, acoustic music store

Gender: Male

Age: 68

My Instruments:
Too many to mention, though my 1964 Ode bought new from Chuck Ogsbury has been a steadfast bluegrass friend, and the 1908 Fairbanks Imperial Electric no. 0 that I acquired in 1968 remains a favorite.

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Again, just too many to mention, though Mississippi John Hurt and Doc Watson remain all-time favorites. If you catch me passively listening to recorded music, it's probably Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven, though.

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Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine

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Play count: 3085
Size: 317kb, uploaded 11/14/2006 11:48:44 AM
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I re-encoded this, as it was playing very slowly here on BHO. I was paying around with some chord substitutions in the B part, and this is what came out.
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Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine

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Play count: 2300
Size: 2,236kb, uploaded 4/24/2012 2:43:00 PM
Genre: Old Time


This is the recording that I made for Craig Evans's interview of Mike Ramsey for his "Conversations with North American Banjo Builders" DVD. Some very kind and flattering things were said about it here on BHO ( http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/234384 ), which made me realize I had never done anything with it. So... I am posting it here now. It was played on my Ramsey Fairbanks Electric (the prototype for the model) in aCGCD capoed 2 to become aDADE.
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Cumberland Gap

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Play count: 1070
Size: 290kb, uploaded 3/11/2008 12:43:26 PM
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A 3-part version played here on an Enoch Cherry Tradesman that was half fretted, i.e., fretless to the 5th fret, and then fretted up to the scoop.
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Duck's Eyeball

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Play count: 1231
Size: 288kb, uploaded 11/14/2006 12:23:47 PM
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A tune I learned from A.C. Overton. This same recording played way too slowly when I first uploaded it to BHO. This is the right speed!
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Durang's Hornpipe

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Play count: 326
Size: 366kb, uploaded 12/30/2006 12:21:42 PM
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A quicky added to demo hornpipe rhythm
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Georgia Railroad

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Play count: 520
Size: 276kb, uploaded 3/11/2008 12:44:42 PM
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Recorded on a fretless Enoch walnut Tradesman as a store demo.
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Georgia Railroad

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Play count: 248
Size: 623kb, uploaded 3/7/2012 5:09:08 AM
Genre: Old Time


Played on a used Gold Tone EBT, an electric banjo with a solid, Telecaster-style body, and thought that something like this needs an old-time, clawhammer tune played acoustically on it! Capoed to aEAC#E. August 2004.
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Greensleeves

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Play count: 1218
Size: 512kb, uploaded 12/15/2006 3:03:04 PM
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3/4 to 4/4 switch. Tuned aDGCD, and I played the tune in Bm on my Ramsey Woody prototype. I think. January 2004.
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Jingle Bells

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Play count: 1473
Size: 291kb, uploaded 11/14/2006 12:27:26 PM
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The same recording was playing way slowly when uploaded here, so here it is at real speed!
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Julie Ann Johnson

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Play count: 3130
Size: 286kb, uploaded 10/29/2006 9:44:32 AM
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Recorded on an a 1926 Vega Style N tenor to which someone added a 5th string! It has a really soggy skin head, and real cheapie bridge. But I like the short scale and dead sound.
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Lost Indian

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Play count: 956
Size: 850kb, uploaded 7/14/2008 6:59:44 AM
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Played as a demo of an Ome Bright Angel Silver Spun in aDADE.
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Magpie

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Play count: 582
Size: 375kb, uploaded 8/13/2008 5:45:24 AM
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I learned this from the fiddler in our band in the 1970s, and promptly forgot the tune entirely. Believe it or not, about 30 years later I found myself whistling this tune while I was driving, and said: "Wow! I think I just remembered Magpie!". Well, I checked it out, and I had... Anyway, I played it here on my old stand-by Ramsey prototype Fairbanks Electric. I'm tuned capoed to double D (aDADE), but playing in G. Sep 2006.
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Martha Campbell

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Play count: 1041
Size: 561kb, uploaded 11/14/2006 11:54:52 AM
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Another that played at 2/3 speed here for some reason, so I have re-encoded it. Recorded in January 2005 on a gourd banjo that Jeff Menzies built I just tuned it to sound good--came out something near gbBGbBDb.
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Nancy

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Play count: 757
Size: 585kb, uploaded 7/18/2008 1:58:23 PM
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Played on a blue custom Ome Jubilee, which can be seen at http://zeppmusic.com/Ome/Blubilee/blubilee.htm Tuned aDADE
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Old Molly Hare

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Play count: 353
Size: 420kb, uploaded 7/19/2010 10:45:37 AM
Genre: Old Time


Played on a Richard Brown Mesquite Banjos Texas Troubadour 11-inch. aCGCD capoed to aDADE. This is the sound track to the short video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92xzivWOP3w
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Over the Waterfall

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Play count: 3118
Size: 895kb, uploaded 11/14/2006 12:05:49 PM
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Yet another one that was playing way too slowly here... This recording contains a nod to my good friend "Bluehammer" Mark Johnson!
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Pony Express

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Play count: 1073
Size: 311kb, uploaded 11/14/2006 12:07:52 PM
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A bluegrass piece, but played in clawhammer... Re-uploaded after I discovered that my tunes were playing at 2/3 speed. zzzzzz
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Quince Dillon's High D, but in C

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Play count: 369
Size: 532kb, uploaded 5/3/2008 4:20:21 AM
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A quick demo of our first Enoch Dobson model: gCGCD
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Ramblin' Hobo

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Play count: 442
Size: 368kb, uploaded 3/21/2008 1:37:36 PM
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Played on a fretless Enoch Tradesman with Nylgut brand strings as a demo for my website. Somewhere near fCFCD.
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Red-Haired Boy

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Play count: 208
Size: 523kb, uploaded 9/21/2012 2:41:55 PM
Genre: Old Time


a 2004 recording of a Chuck Lee Chautauqua.
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Sally in the Garden

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Play count: 260
Size: 705kb, uploaded 7/30/2009 11:07:30 AM
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recorded 29 Jul 09 on my wife's pink Goodtime. This recording was added as the soundtrack to the video I made of its being played. I had known this tune forever, but I had never, ever played it, AFAIK until it was selected as the "Tune of the Week." I finally decided I ought to know it! :-)
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Sarah Armstrong's Tune

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Play count: 2664
Size: 891kb, uploaded 11/1/2006 3:03:48 PM
Genre: Old Time


I heard this tune fiddled on John Salmon's wonderful Sugar in the Gourd, and decided it should be a banjo tune!
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Seneca Square Dance (aka Waiting for the Federals)

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Play count: 742
Size: 523kb, uploaded 3/21/2008 1:39:23 PM
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Played on Chuck Lee's first Cottonwood Vintage model, having a Dobson tone ring--done as a store demo. gDGBD
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Soldier's Joy

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Play count: 699
Size: 817kb, uploaded 10/2/2012 10:05:22 AM
Genre: Old Time


The first MP3 I ever did. In 2002, a student asked me to record this for him, and I shared it on BANJO-L.
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The Fishin' Hole

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Play count: 1540
Size: 390kb, uploaded 5/29/2012 8:04:42 AM
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A 2004 recording I did because the tune was stuck in my head. I have uploaded it now, in 2012, as an example of my brushing and non-brushing in a tune. Played on my Ramsey Electric. aCGCD capoed to become aDADE.
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Waterbound played on a LicketySplit banjo

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Play count: 181
Size: 281kb, uploaded 7/9/2011 9:05:19 AM
Genre: Old Time


This is a clawhammer version of the tune, played on a three-string, diatonically fretted, LicketySplit brand banjo. I recorded this as a demo when we sold these in the shop. I think it was recorded ca. 2003.
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Winder Slide

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Play count: 1104
Size: 714kb, uploaded 2/8/2007 9:04:41 AM
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Recorded for a student in 2005 on a 1923, 11-13/16" Tu-Ba-Phone no. 9 capoed to aDADE
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