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I'll be there God willing and the crick don't rise.

Dan,

I've got a 2 tape set of Michael Coleman. I could loan it to you if you're interested.

I won two milk shakes for having the longest feet at a dance in Fairmount, Indiana. My aunt had knitted me some bright red argyle socks and I happened to have them on. Very cool. In case you don't know, Jimmy Dean was born in Fairmount. Apart from that I have won innumerable lotteries. I haven't col...

Those phobics remind me of a psychologist named Stampfl who treated his clients with a "flooding" method. He did it verbally. In a film I watched he had a client with a spider phobia. He described to the client how the spiders were crawling up her legs onto the rest of her body and how the...

I have a clock that resets itself as well, but it's designed to consult the atomic clock in Fr. Collins periodically Redwolf Fr. Collins has an atomic clock inside him? In Indiana there used to be debates about daylight savings time. Opinions ran very strong. There would be letters to the newspaper...

I had a quick look through this thread but didn't find the word "awesome". I'll vote for that as my least favourite single word. Once I took a university level ceramics course. It dealt with functional pottery, not art ceramics. The word "statement" quickly became my most hated w...

The Reconciliation is a good tune. I think it's originally a hornpipe but everybody seems to play it as a reel. John Stenson's is an A tune without any G#s. The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket is a good jig. I think it's probably Scottish. My favourite A tune is Les Eboulements. It's a Quebec tune ...

Michael Eskin has chord charts and some videos for dropped D tuning as well as DADGAD. That's only altering one string from standard tuning.

Put that washboard together with the flowerpot-o-phone and a cigar box banjo and you've got a pretty cool band.

Hmmm. It's kind of strange that two different banjo companies would call their banjos Tennessee. Apparantly that's the case though. I found a site advertizing Tennessee banjos of different varieties. The prices aren't anything like the prices of the Crafters of Tennessee banjos. They are mostly arou...

I can read music as long as it's treble clef and in the range of traditional tunes-from G below middle C to D just over two octaves above middle C. Although I played clarinet and saxophone for years I have never been a great reader, particularly not where there are tricky rhythms. The bass clef comp...

Assuming it's the same company, Crafters of Tennessee makes the banjos. They appear to be American made. Here's place with some poop on the 5-string. I couldn't find anything on tenors. The 5-strings are pricey.

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You could consider buying John McCutcheon's intorductory dulcimer DVD. There's a sample of it you can look at. I don't have it or any other DVD or instruction books. I think it might suit your needs though. That's the only think I know to reccomend but you could join Everything Dulcimer and ask ther...

Mary Cox is quite popular with the clawhammer banjo crowd. Her playing is not complicated but usually very tasteful.