There is no way to achieve that old-fashioned Appalachian sound without a banjo, so if you’re looking ... they should easily contact the frets without hurting your fingers.

It's crammed floor to ceiling with tools, saws, 130-year-old rawhide-faced banjos, dog-eared books, piles of "pots" or banjo bodies, wire tuners, steel strings, hooks, frets, bracket shoes and ...

“In my hometown they had a Shakeys and they always had a banjo player. And when I saw that and heard the old tunes, it all clicked.” said All Frets Magazine Editor Johnny Baier. Baier became ...

(KTVI) – The All Frets Convention will be held at the Renaissance ... Some of the members of the St. Louis Banjo Club stopped by to give us a taste of some of the music you can hear.

Stewart Universal Favorite Custom Banjo, ca. 1890. The neck is made from cherry, and the instrument’s shell is made from maple. The heel plate is ebony. The tuning pegs and head, ivory tailpiece ...

Oh, The crowd howled with laughter. So did Osserman, whose best lines were explaining how banjo frets have the exact same specifications as slide rules. "Slides rules and (the frets of ...

By 1928 radio had cut into the field, but, with jazz music at a noisy, amorphous stage, the banjo had a vogue of a sort. Currently the trade claims that home instruments are enjoying an upswing ...