Brighton Breeze

Posted by KingStudent, written by John Bunge

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- Play count: 93

Size: 6,174kb, uploaded 2/26/2017 2:33:08 PM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

First piece from suite Important Birds

Gibson trapdoor demo

Written/Posted by KingStudent

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- Play count: 361

Size: 1,870kb, uploaded 7/28/2014 8:21:41 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Brief demo of early 1920's Gibson trapdoor tenor banjo, with trapdoor open/closed

It's More Personal

Written/Posted by KingStudent

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- Play count: 74

Size: 4,590kb, uploaded 3/26/2023 2:47:13 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

From "The Players Come Again" by Jasperoo (Jasperoo.bandcamp.com)

Loyal Leader

Posted by KingStudent, written by Claribel Jeffrey

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- Play count: 280

Size: 1,494kb, uploaded 2/9/2012 6:45:30 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Piece from Wm. C. Stahl's "New Method for Plectrum Banjo" (1920), p. 59. Excerpt only: introduction (1st 4 bars) and Trio omitted.

Matuk Way

Posted by KingStudent, written by Escapees

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- Play count: 79

Size: 6,474kb, uploaded 3/9/2024 5:26:04 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Melodic Study

Posted by KingStudent, written by Arthur W. Black

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- Play count: 258

Size: 1,454kb, uploaded 2/9/2012 6:38:34 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Exercise from Arthur W. Black's "A Practical Plectrum Method for the Standard Banjo" (1919), p. 22.

Melody

Posted by KingStudent, written by Wm. C. Stahl

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- Play count: 194

Size: 157kb, uploaded 2/9/2012 6:35:01 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Exercise from Wm. C. Stahl's "New Method for Plectrum Banjo" (1920), p. 32.

Piranha

Written/Posted by KingStudent

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- Play count: 91

Size: 6,419kb, uploaded 3/14/2020 9:07:41 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

New music for banjo & viola, with John Bunge on plectrum banjo & William Hurley on viola, live at Ithaca NY's Community School for Music and Arts 2/29/2020. Bunge's banjo was made by Doug Unger and Hurley's viola was made by himself.

Primrose March

Posted by KingStudent, written by Hausdorf

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Size: 1,850kb, uploaded 2/9/2012 6:33:30 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Piece from Wm. C. Stahl's "New Method for Plectrum Banjo" (1920), p. 54. Introduction (1st 5 bars) omitted.

Queen of the Night

Posted by KingStudent, written by J. L. Le Barge

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- Play count: 248

Size: 1,635kb, uploaded 2/9/2012 6:43:56 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Piece from Wm. C. Stahl's "New Method for Plectrum Banjo" (1920). Excerpt only: 1st section & 2nd part of Trio omitted. Taken much slower than probably intended, for emotional reasons.

Royal Arms

Posted by KingStudent, written by Wm. C. Stahl

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- Play count: 207

Size: 2,926kb, uploaded 2/9/2012 6:47:06 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Piece from Wm. C. Stahl's "New Method for Plectrum Banjo" (1920), p. 51. Intro omitted. Taken much slower than probably intended, for emotional reasons.

Russian Rag

Posted by KingStudent, written by J. L. Le Barge

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- Play count: 54

Size: 1,611kb, uploaded 2/9/2012 6:40:50 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen

Piece from Wm C. Stahl's "New Method for Plectrum Banjo" (1920), p. 64. Excerpt only: bars 1-16 omitted.

Seeders banjo #028 demo

Written/Posted by KingStudent

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Size: 2,502kb, uploaded 5/23/2014 6:35:25 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Demo of Seeders banjo #028 using some of my own music

Solace - A Mexican Serenade

Posted by KingStudent, written by Scott Joplin

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- Play count: 481

Size: 3,171kb, uploaded 2/9/2012 6:48:50 AM
Genre: Ragtime / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Joplin's immortal slow rag or tango (marked "very slow"). Arr. J. Bunge. Taken here without repeats.

Song Without Words

Posted by KingStudent, written by Wm. C. Stahl

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- Play count: 238

Size: 1,001kb, uploaded 2/9/2012 6:31:17 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

Exercise from p. 47 of Stahl's "New Method for Plectrum Banjo" (1920).

The Entertainer

Posted by KingStudent, written by Scott Joplin

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- Play count: 728

Size: 4,703kb, uploaded 6/4/2014 2:06:01 PM
Genre: Ragtime / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

arranged for banjo by J. Bunge

Too Dangerous

Posted by KingStudent, written by John & Mary Beth Bunge

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- Play count: 62

Size: 5,260kb, uploaded 4/2/2022 3:32:33 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)

From the first Jasperoo album "Pandemonium"

Under the Arctic Ice

Written/Posted by KingStudent

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- Play count: 134

Size: 6,682kb, uploaded 7/10/2020 9:25:24 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

JB on Gold Tone MM-150LN long-neck 5-string banjo & Gibson Hummingbird Pro 12-string guitar.