Playing Since: 2009
Experience Level: Novice
Bufo Bill has made 18 recent additions to Banjo Hangout
Occupation: Nerdy-nerdy Dork-dork.
Gender: Male
Age: 43
My Instruments:
My collection is back up to four.They are my 1880's English-Made Fretless, "Bullroarer" a Dan Knowles Piccolo Gourd Banjo, and I have a Vega Little Wonder; a vintage 1912/13 pot with an A scale neck by Wyatt Fawley, which I bought on the hangout and has nylon strings. I have an oddball small pot Vega Tubaphone Style S pot with a Slingerland neck which I made into a flush fret banjo.I also have a homemade cigar box guitar with a 5 string banjo neck and a pickup specially made by a friend Stateside.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
too many to choose. I like all music styles to some extent.
Banjo-wise my hero is R.D. Lunceford, and I also love the Red-headed Fiddlers recordings on County Records. I am a fan of Rpeek's Youtube videos. Red Graham from the Redheaded Fiddlers is pretty much sounding how I want to sound. Any newbies should check out the Rocket Science Banjo e book by the hangout's Oldwoodchuckb - his advice on the basic stroke will set you up well for a life of banjo playing. I'm not much of a player but pretty much everything I do right is down to the books and videos of Woodchuck and Richard Peek
Further afield, the Tony Palmer DVD of Fairport Convention actually made me dance around my living room today. RIP DAVE SWARBRICK.
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Created 6/26/2011
Last Visit 6/2/2023
Born, wasted 29 years, began playing banjo at that point. Still no good at playing, but I can zone out of all the complaints while I'm playing now. Drop in to the Polymer Strings group that I run for loads of links, advice and other info.
