www.bostonbanjoteacher.com
Playing Since: 1970
Experience Level: Purty Good
clawhammertim has made 5 recent additions to Banjo Hangout
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: clawhammer banjo teacher
Gender: Male
Age: 61
My Instruments:
Will Fielding Custom Rooster
Bart Reiter Tubaphone
Vega Frankenstein Fretless
Gold Star GF85
2003 Gold Star GF-85 #17
Harmony Seeger-Style long neck
Frank Proffit Maxwelltone
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
John Herrmann, Brad Leftwich, Mac Benford, Tom Sauber, Riley Baugus, Walt Koken, Dan Gellert, Dirk Powell, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Kyle Creed, Wade Ward, Bob Smakula, Gordy Hinners, Joel Mabus, Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, Reed Martin, Laura Boosinger, Pete Wernick, Tony Trischka, Earl Scruggs and the great mostly unknown Steve Mote.
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Created 7/12/2005
Last Visit 1/25/2020
Inspired at age 12 to learn to play this dang thing by Pete Seeger, Pete Wernick and Tony Trischka. Struggled for 6 or 7 years until I met a great clawhammer player from the Ozarks named Steve Mote. Played only the Sears Harmony banjo until about 1995 when my amazingly patient and mostly understanding wife surprised me with a Bart Reiter for Christmas. That spring I finally placed in the local banjo and fiddle competition. About 3 years ago I fell in love with a Fielding banjo that has yet once more shown me how much more there is to learn. I own and want to play a whole bunch of other instruments -guitar, mandolin, uke, fiddle, didgeridoo... but every time I go to practice I pick up a banjo instead. Go figure... I play in an Old-time band by the name of Jubilee Mule. We play the third Tuesday of every month at the Cantab in Cambridge.
