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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,507kb, uploaded 1/24/2025 4:07:36 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo: aEAC#E Derived from Melvin Wine's fiddling
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,523kb, uploaded 12/8/2022 11:17:45 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo - aDAde Learned from my fiddle version of the transcription in Sameul Bayard's "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife". A copy of the notation can be found at: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Cheat_River_(The)
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 710kb, uploaded 12/8/2022 11:11:50 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Other
Charles Berkey version is extracted from some sound files created by Samuel Bayard. Downloading prevented, for now. While many of the Bayard recordings are on YouTube, this one is not among them. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfkrWr_vIGB9l33oOjTC2M6JlhxfoPlQz
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,814kb, uploaded 12/8/2022 11:15:20 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo - aDAde Hobo Pie (Barbara Johnson and Carl Baron - fiddles, Ray Frick - banjo and Bob Woodcock ? guitar) in a medley with a Ray Frick original ?Cricket in the Wood? (recorded at Gwynedd Friends Coffeehouse in April, 2003) and on the CD "we might as well be live".
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,005kb, uploaded 5/30/2025 5:21:13 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Melvin Wine learned this tune from his father. Banjo - aEAC#E
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 1,728kb, uploaded 7/28/2010 7:19:34 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From the notes to my 2000 "Banjo Stuff" CD. Now we come to the tune I call the CRAZY DUSTY MILLER. The "crazy" part of the name comes from me. When I first heard this tune, I heard it out of phase, which resulted in this musical joke. In aEADE; with apologies to Armin Barnett.
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 1,867kb, uploaded 5/21/2011 9:29:22 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo tuning - gDGDE. This is the first time I've made a setting that's 1/2 clawhammer and 1/2 finger picked. I practiced with the track on the Clyde Davenport Field Recorders’ Collective CD, FRC104 and it was compatible. However, the speed I’m playing this is only about 75-80% of the tempo that Clyde played on the fiddle. I can’t handle full speed yet.
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Posted by carlb, written by Benjamin Hanby
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Size: 2,699kb, uploaded 9/4/2019 10:57:43 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Tune used for Clawhammer TOTW 9-6-19; Banjo tuned (5th to 1st) - g#C#F#BE (tuned up from f#BEAD).
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Posted by carlb, written by passed via Sam Long
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Size: 4,245kb, uploaded 2/15/2024 8:36:16 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
aDAde Learned, originally in G, from "Echoes of the Ozarks" On Volume III (https://www.discogs.com/release/5408109-Various-Echoes-Of-The-Ozarks-Volume-III)
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Posted by carlb, written by Music - Ernie Carpenter, Lyrics - Rachel Anne Goodman
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Size: 3,353kb, uploaded 3/26/2025 8:02:24 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The story of how eminent domain destroyed a person's home place. Ernie was about 27 years old when this happened.
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,349kb, uploaded 8/22/2008 9:45:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
aEADE; from the playing of French Carpenter & Doc White (originally via Alan Jabbour)
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,120kb, uploaded 3/11/2019 10:55:46 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Derived from the fiddling of Clyde Davenport. Banjo - aDAde, recorded in 2000
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Posted by carlb, written by George Graham, or maybe it's older than George
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Size: 1,282kb, uploaded 2/10/2022 2:46:07 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
George Graham's Cotillion is a tune from the Jehile Kirkhuff, a fiddler from northeast Pennsylvania (1907-1981). Banjo - aDAde. Jehile Kirkhuff, fiddle and Carl Baron, banjo over existing recording.
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Posted by carlb, written by Eddie Fox
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Size: 3,440kb, uploaded 7/6/2015 7:31:51 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Hobo Pie (Carl Baron, Barbara Johnson, Ray Frick and Bob Woodcock) recorded Eddie Fox's "Good Bye Liza Jane" (1871) in June, 2000 for our first CD "We Might as Well Be Dead".
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Posted by carlb, written by Ola Belle Reed
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Size: 2,822kb, uploaded 7/22/2019 10:38:12 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From a performance by Hobo Pie at the 2013 Harvest Moon Festival, Coverdale Farm Preserve of Delaware Nature Society, 543 Way Rd, Greenville, DE. Music groups were provided by the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music. Members are: Barbara Johnson, Ray Frick, Carl Baron and Laura Kalnajs. Lead singing by Barbara and harmony by Laura.
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Posted by carlb, written by Albert E. Brumley
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Size: 4,247kb, uploaded 1/1/2020 7:04:51 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
gCGce A hymn by Albert E. Brumley
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Posted by carlb, written by Theodore Morris
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Size: 576kb, uploaded 7/7/2014 9:58:12 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Inspired by Jimmy Driftwoods fiddling of tune learned from his uncle, Theodore Morris. Banjo - gEGde (Hobart Smith's "Last Chance" tuning)
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Posted by carlb
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Size: 2,388kb, uploaded 8/20/2020 8:11:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
"Jack of All Trades" is a tune I learned from Melvin Wine and has over the last five years, or so, become almost a standard in some of the jams that I play in. From the Vintage Wine cassette notes "This old tune comes from Melvin's father." I did try to find more information on the tune on line and from Drew Beisswenger, who wrote a Ph.D. thesis on Melvin, but we both came up blank. Banjo - gDGde
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Posted by carlb, written by A. Wallerstein
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Size: 2,733kb, uploaded 6/4/2021 8:49:59 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Clawhammer banjo aDADe Three parts in D and one part in G.
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Posted by carlb, written by A. Wallerstein
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Size: 3,107kb, uploaded 6/4/2021 9:29:36 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Classical
Midi file of musical notation which is in the tabs as a pdf file
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