DVD-quality lessons (including tabs/sheet music) available for immediate viewing on any device.
Take your playing to the next level with the help of a local or online banjo teacher.
Weekly newsletter includes free lessons, favorite member content, banjo news and more.
I've long been curious about these. John Sloan was a very active member of the American Banjo Fraternity and, judging from accounts as well as recordings, was a fantastic classic banjoist.
A few years ago his son sent me his banjo sheet music collection which consisted of 8 boxes total, about three were actually music-- the rest was random garbage and junk mail.
The sheet music was the most disorganized mess one could imagine. Much of the British banjo music was published with a solo part, a second banjo part, and a piano part. This is usually two pages for the solo, one for the second, and 4+ for the piano. Now take those parts for a few hundred pieces and shuffle them like a deck of cards. That was how I got the music. It took me a more than few months to sort it out. Even the individual pages were separated and shuffled.
I've heard other stories about John Sloan and he was quite the character.