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Me frailing on a bluegrass style (resonator) banjo; a couple tunes in C modal (double C) tuning. Serenading my favorite salt shaker!

This is a fiddle tune from the Hammons family, played here on harmonica with rhythm guitar.

Hello Banjo folks!!.....Some of my students have asked me to post a few of my playing techniques. The last time I posted anything here on Youtube I...

Please comment, Just a reply to others about misconceptions about the Southern accent here in the U.S. (American accent) I enjoy listening to acce...

This is the old time version of Cumberland Gap. It's the one you usually hear with vocals. The banjo is in special Cumberland Gap tuning.

Some 3 part Cumberland Gap with Andrew Bond on the fiddle.

Double thumb exercises- from the Basic Frailing Techniques DVD.

Wayne Erbsen at Warren Wilson College October 4, 2009 demonstrating a minstrel banjo. Wayne plays the pre-Civil War tune Pattyroller in the clawham...

Played on a gourd banjo as used in the late 1700s and early 1800s, this may be the oldest banjo tune we know.

Honey Holler jamming at the Weaverville (NC) Tailgate Market in May 2010. Honey Holler is based in Asheville N.C. www.myspace.com/honeyholler

There are many versions of this tune. We learned this one from Virginia fiddler Speedy Tolliver.

This is a new old time song written by Rodney Dillard and Mitch Jayne. We modified it a little from the original bluegrass style. Mac plays clawham...

Here Bill plays two stroke-style pieces from the 1800's on a fretless minstrel banjo replica built by George Wunderlich.

The first piece, "St. Pat...

A fun ragtime piece recorded first by the great Vess Ossman. This is my first attempt - excuse the minor mind blank. I will record it again in the ...

A little tune noter style on a repaired Paul Pyle dulcimer. The only real repair on this was replacing the round metal nut with one of ebony and re...

2 old-time tunes which go some way to illustrate the hypnotic quality of Clawhammer Style Banjo. The first one is the well known 'Arkansas Travelle...

We learned this tune from Virginia fiddler Speedy Tolliver. Mac's playing clawhammer banjo accompanied by Annie's rhythm guitar.

This was a great honor and great fun as well. After building a guitar under the great tutelage of Gerald Anderson we had a staff and student concer...

A new Cherry "travel" Dulcimer with an unusual fretting pattern. This has a very short scale of 20 3/4" and also has a soundboard transducer. Using...

This is an early traditional fiddle tune from Kentucky named for a gap in the Cumberland Mountains, played here on clawhammer banjo and rhythm guitar.

Old timey (anti) war song about the Spanish-American War (called Battleship of Maine sometimes) - post 1900's; Charlie Poole did it and New Lost Ci...

This old time tune is the one Ralph Stanley said he learned from his mother.

This is an old traditional tune from the Southern mountains, played here on clawhammer banjo and rhythm guitar.

Old time fiddler Mike Bryant plays for love, not money.

So many versions of this song. Here's mine, somewhere north of the old Channing Depot.

Gmaj, standard tuning.

Solo fiddle tune, old style.