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I was perusing the archive and ran across this photo. Has anyone ever seen this banjo in person? I'm just curious as to how the Orpheum cello banjo would hold up against its counterparts (Stewart cello banjo, Windsor cello banjo and Gibson cello banjo) in an orchestra and solo. I would also like to know if the double coursed strings were still a gut/nylon type or if they were...
Some time ago I was given a poor photocopy of this by Drew Frech.
I was pretty excited to find a complete set of these, also cool that these came from Rev. Adam Hunkler.
This is a comprehensive set of exercises. Rice wrote a series of articles that went along with this and he goes into extreme detail on each set of exercises. Those articles s...
I recently received a copy of the front cover of the very first B.M.G. magazine. The cover shows a 3 octave five stringed banjo which has the every appearance of being made by Alfred Weaver, but we cannot be certain of this. The hoop is said to be 10.5 inches in diameter and the price is £10/10/0 (ten pounds ten shillings, or 10 Guineas) converted to modern UK decimal coinage...
Yesterday, as I was digging through a box marked "Cammeyer" I came across this, obviously.
It looked fun so I scanned it.
https://archive.org/details/banjoists-companion-a-h-nassau-kennedy-ism
