1984 The 5-String Banjo in America - playing styles, design, history, music and more!

Features: The 5-String Banjo in America - playing styles, design, history, music and more!; Banjos at M.I.T.; Evolution of the Banjo; 5-String playing styles; Banjo Bulls and Bears; Dave Van Ronk on Fingerstyle; How to mend a broken harp; Seattle's Free "Folklife"; Workshops: Margie Mirken - the hows and whys of using old-fashioned calfskin banjo heads; Alan Munde - The Banjo as a career; Earl Scruggs - How High the action; Byron Berline - Fiddling "Cripple Creek"; more

1984 May Frets Acoustic String Instruments Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com