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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 155
Size: 4,589kb, uploaded 11/16/2013 1:03:31 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo 076 Cammeyer "Boudoir", nylgut. Banjo-mando 075 Gretsch "American", nylgut
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 135
Size: 1,241kb, uploaded 12/18/2011 6:11:55 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo #063, a plain Lyon & Healy, steel strings, capo-ed @ 2nd fret & 5th tuned up to A for A tuning. Fiddle AEAE, old German parlor guitar w/ nylon strings played w/ thumb.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 213
Size: 1,309kb, uploaded 8/22/2010 4:41:26 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
One of a few versions out there, I like Chris Wig's version. Demo of banjo #057, an old (probable) Buckbee w 9 3/4" pot & Nylgut Minstrel strings.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 90
Size: 1,333kb, uploaded 8/18/2012 3:56:35 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
demo banjo #35
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 47
Size: 977kb, uploaded 2/2/2012 3:40:49 PM
Genre: Unknown/None Chosen / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
Demo Banjo #65, a plain Lyon & Healy.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 481
Size: 1,130kb, uploaded 11/6/2010 12:59:52 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
demo banjo #060, a Lyon & Healy
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 887
Size: 889kb, uploaded 11/7/2010 10:47:45 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Demo banjo #061, a George Dobson "Matchless".
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 45
Size: 2,161kb, uploaded 11/26/2012 4:26:12 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
banjo-mando #072
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 181
Size: 5,794kb, uploaded 6/30/2012 5:12:58 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
banjo #030 on left audio track.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 501
Size: 1,284kb, uploaded 11/4/2010 4:26:29 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
demo banjo #059, a slot-head probable Buckbee
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 98
Size: 4,553kb, uploaded 10/30/2013 4:11:19 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
The Fall of Richmond was when General Lee abandoned Richmond, which was then the capital of the Confederacy, on April 1, 1865. Banjo 032, steel-strung tenor-to-5-string conversion.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 120
Size: 1,082kb, uploaded 7/10/2011 6:35:25 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 315
Size: 1,443kb, uploaded 8/19/2012 5:29:38 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
demo fretless nylgut banjo 069
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 230
Size: 1,114kb, uploaded 3/14/2010 5:04:10 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Left track banjo is a late 1800's Buckbee, stamped Wm. A. Pond & Co., short (ladies')-scale, 9 5/8" pot, Nylgut Minstrel strings. The other banjo is set up to play an octave low, two fiddles on right track in GDAD, banjos in G. WV tune from Melvin Wine via Chris Wig.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 610
Size: 668kb, uploaded 3/29/2011 6:16:47 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Version similar to J. P. Nestor. An old, hand-made banjo. Pot looks like a grain measure or a hat box.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 142
Size: 1,741kb, uploaded 11/7/2010 7:14:22 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Demo banjo # 057, a Buckbee.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 178
Size: 1,449kb, uploaded 6/2/2011 5:47:22 PM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo #42
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 256
Size: 1,733kb, uploaded 8/28/2010 2:36:37 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Demo a Washburn tenor-to-5-string conversion, also playing around with recording setup, tried using a click track, & a minor, discord note in the fiddle B part per JL.
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 143
Size: 4,404kb, uploaded 9/30/2013 3:50:14 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Valley Forge - Fiddle #68 w/mute
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Posted by Mark Ralston
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- Play count: 158
Size: 8,045kb, uploaded 6/24/2012 7:40:33 AM
Genre: Old Time / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Banjo #030, 5-string conversion of a "Washington"-branded tenor. Looks like a Slingerland and has the 1/4" iron rod tone ring, which I suspended on brads similar to Cole Eclipse.
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