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The banjo is too vast in its potential to limit myself to one genre. The solution: get more banjos!
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Playing Since: 2006
Experience Level: Novice
Interests:
[Jamming] [Socializing]
Occupation: teacher
Gender: Male
Age: 60
My Instruments:
Fender FB 58, home made openback (Recording King pot, Stew Mac Whyte Laydie tone ring, Saga neck...), Mandolin (made & upgraded from kit), tenor ukulele, guitar (like everybody else), Mandola, (the Deering Goodtime openback (to which I added a brass hoop tone ring) has now been sold).
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Wailin' Jennys, Scruggs, Skaggs, Duhks, Seeger, Kingston Trio, Doc Watson, Béla Fleck, Bill Monroe, Stanley Bros, nothing very original, but great stuff.
Have to add John Hartford to this list, now. Just discovered him. Amazing!
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Created 10/3/2006
Last Visit 6/17/2025
Started playing by chance when I had to repair my Dad's banjo about a year ago. Never put it down since.
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