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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 81
Size: 1,232kb, uploaded 11/13/2010 2:31:07 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Other
Who Broke the Lock on the Henhouse Door? - Shorty Thompson Mercury 2056-A 1946
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 126
Size: 1,566kb, uploaded 9/24/2009 5:23:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Other
Ya Gotta Quit Kicking my Dog Around - Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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Size: 8,304kb, uploaded 12/11/2014 8:10:49 AM
Genre: Other / Playing Style: Other
1920 Gibson A2 mandolin SN 61718
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 555
Size: 1,447kb, uploaded 2/5/2012 10:18:19 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
demo banjo #65
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 213
Size: 3,413kb, uploaded 7/24/2014 4:54:55 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Bernie Kearns 1995 F3 mandolin
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 99
Size: 1,163kb, uploaded 12/22/2011 6:24:50 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
demo banjo-mandolin #62. Nylgut mando strings.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 202
Size: 796kb, uploaded 7/28/2010 3:55:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Demo a probable Buckbee banjo 07-28-10
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 189
Size: 4,162kb, uploaded 6/5/2013 4:30:41 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
demo fretless Buckbee #051
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 227
Size: 970kb, uploaded 7/25/2010 2:04:26 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Demo of an older banjo, looks like a Buckbee in the style of Dobson. Small (9.5") pot, tuned 5 frets low. Fiddle also tuned low from D tuning.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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Size: 1,900kb, uploaded 2/19/2013 5:21:48 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Cowboy's dream played on a Stewart piccolo banjo. Banjo is tuned up 5 frets above standard D tuning. Fiddle is GDAE, and this D tune is played shifted down one string so that it's in tune with the banjo. Result is that the tune is in the key of G. Guitar in in standard tuning. http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/255828
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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Size: 1,086kb, uploaded 10/11/2010 4:32:39 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo # 058. Buckbee neck with a transplanted, vintage pot. Steel strings, vintage friction tuners.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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Size: 4,850kb, uploaded 11/8/2008 12:01:09 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Nice, easy tempo G tune. Fretless banjo #020.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 196
Size: 803kb, uploaded 11/26/2010 5:00:09 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Played in A. Played at dance tempo...... also posted a 78 version for contrast. Dance tempo is definitely at odds with the lyrics. Washburn tenor-to-5-string conversion.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 76
Size: 1,222kb, uploaded 8/18/2012 12:20:00 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
demo banjo 22
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 118
Size: 797kb, uploaded 12/7/2011 5:43:59 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
demo Vega Style N tenor conversion to 5-string fretless
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 303
Size: 3,022kb, uploaded 1/31/2009 2:05:31 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
A, fiddle is tuned to Tommy Jarrell's Drunken Hiccups tuning, banjo strings 1 - 4 same notes as fiddle, banjo 5th string same as 1st.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 227
Size: 4,819kb, uploaded 7/4/2012 12:53:39 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo #31 on left track
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 500
Size: 1,488kb, uploaded 10/17/2010 9:23:19 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Demo banjo # 058, a plain, double-teardrop Buckbee. Tune in A, two fiddles both AEAE.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 163
Size: 2,251kb, uploaded 10/21/2012 7:17:05 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Fortune is usually played in D, short-scale banjo 032 was tuned in C for this clip.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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Size: 1,089kb, uploaded 11/27/2008 1:16:33 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
This tune doesn't seem to get played much, probably because it's so repetitive & simple. Tune is in A, fiddle tuned AEAE. Banjo #026.
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