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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 190
Size: 1,042kb, uploaded 5/22/2010 4:45:18 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Ora Lee, learned from Bob Carlin's version. Banjo #038, a short-scale, converted Vega Style N tenor-to-5-string.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 154
Size: 5,366kb, uploaded 11/3/2013 12:44:55 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Ora Lee, banjo 067, a small-pot, nylgut-strung, ladies' scale, F.H. Douglas ~ 1890. Also a nylon-strung Weymann banjo-mandolin and a nylon-strung parlor guitar.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 82
Size: 2,993kb, uploaded 9/24/2012 2:48:56 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
From Clifftop 2012
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 74
Size: 2,952kb, uploaded 9/27/2012 2:29:24 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 200
Size: 1,091kb, uploaded 6/26/2011 6:14:43 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
ID'ed by Carl Baron - thanks, Carl
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 170
Size: 1,882kb, uploaded 7/5/2011 3:53:25 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Vega Style N fretless conversion, nylgut minstrel strings, hide head on a muggy July day. I like Dunford & Ward's version of this tune.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 170
Size: 2,605kb, uploaded 12/22/2012 12:38:13 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Piney Woods Girl fretless banjo #023. G tune, fiddle in GDAE.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 39
Size: 2,460kb, uploaded 12/24/2012 10:11:18 AM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
Piney Woods Girl from North Carolina. Alec Dunford, Crockett Ward, and Fields Ward. Recorded for Library of Congress Oct 24, 1937 in Galax VA.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 122
Size: 2,828kb, uploaded 3/15/2014 6:24:31 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Pollman Royal Standard 5-string fretless. Banjo is tuned low & played with the "D" fingering, fiddle is tuned down & close to AEAE & played in "A" fingering.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 214
Size: 1,591kb, uploaded 6/19/2011 3:57:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Haynes Bay State piccolo banjo and a Supertone parlor guitar
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 37
Size: 3,191kb, uploaded 6/4/2018 5:42:11 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Other
Octave low banjo, banjo-mando
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 59
Size: 3,191kb, uploaded 6/4/2018 5:47:12 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
Quince Dillon's High D Jump Jim Crow
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 90
Size: 996kb, uploaded 12/22/2011 5:09:29 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Other
demo banjo-mandolin #62. Nylgut mando strings.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 111
Size: 4,192kb, uploaded 3/19/2014 3:09:03 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo is tuned in D-tuning down 5 frets (makes the3rd & 5th strings D, not A). This lets you play the fiddle part using the D fingering but shifted down one set of strings to the bass side, which lets a fiddler play with a fretless banjo that is tuned low. version similar to Birkhead And Lane
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 211
Size: 3,000kb, uploaded 2/28/2009 6:47:07 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Tune in A, fiddle AEAE. Learned from playing of Owen Chapman.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 539
Size: 4,225kb, uploaded 12/6/2008 5:03:36 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Henry Reed Waltz in D. Banjo #022, Fiddle GDAE.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 183
Size: 3,590kb, uploaded 8/10/2012 3:45:02 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Aug 2012 set
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 118
Size: 3,447kb, uploaded 10/27/2012 5:36:51 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo-mando #071 (left track) with a parlor guitar & fretless 5-string (right track)
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 194
Size: 5,505kb, uploaded 12/26/2014 4:11:00 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Saint Anne's Reel; Bay State piccolo banjo, Weymann banjo-guitar, fiddle. Banjo is tuned up 5 half-steps and played in D fingering, so the tune is in G.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 260
Size: 961kb, uploaded 7/26/2010 4:56:07 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Lyon & Healy demo
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