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Bart Reiter on Bass - 1978

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

 

1978 Elderly Instruments staff - Bart Reiter in back on the bass.

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Stained 4-star goat hide - spiral flesh hoop

Monday, January 16, 2017 Add Comment

One of the very BEST looking stained hides ever

Saturday, January 14, 2017 1 comment

Adam Hurt's new CD - Artifacts

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Add Comment

Same age as me - but a lot better lookin!

Monday, January 9, 2017 1 comment

Fuzzy goat hide on a great looking banjo by David Prat

Saturday, January 7, 2017 1 comment

Recent work

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New FuZZy goat hide - 12" in classifieds

Tuesday, December 27, 2016 Add Comment

More hair

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Merry Christmas!

Sunday, December 25, 2016 4 comments

Goat hide ~ with hair ~ mounted flesh-side facing up

Friday, December 23, 2016 5 comments

Nice one!

Thursday, December 22, 2016 Add Comment

Hairy Goat hide on my Wayne Sagmoen banjo

Tuesday, December 20, 2016 Add Comment

Several hides the workbench today - coming soon to the classifieds

Saturday, December 17, 2016 Add Comment

Hairy goat hide on a Rickard Dobson

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Add Comment

A few heads from my workbench today

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Add Comment

Very cool hairy head - trimmed short - I like this one!

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 Add Comment

Cool looking hairy goat hide head.

Thursday, December 8, 2016 Add Comment

Plenty of heads finished and ready to mail. Check my ads in the classifieds

Monday, December 5, 2016 Add Comment

Riverhouse Motorlodge - and the Gatlinburg fires

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I'm mostly a clawhammer banjo player.I’ve released two cd’s (Carry On John /2002 and ~HOT~ Biscuit Jam /2004).  I played as part of “Pa’s fiddle band” on the CD: Happy Land Musical Tributes to Laura Ingalls Wilder  (Pa’s Fiddle recordings 2005). My original banjo music was published on a CD which accompanied the book: The Voice of The Heart by Chip Dodd (Providence House Publishing 2001).  Many years ago, I played clawhammer  and bluegrass style banjo on an old vinyl LP with the Pure Mountain Water Band (First Jug /1979).  I currently have other recording projects in the works…so please “stay tuned.”I’ve been very fortunate to have served nearly 30 years years with the Uncle Dave Macon Days Festival organization. .

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