Showing posts with label Margie Mirken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margie Mirken. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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

Friday, April 29, 2011

1987 Doc Watson - Spirit of American Steel-String

Doc Watson - The Life and Times of Arthel Watson; Inside Doc Watson's Music; Musical tools for the blind; Close up - Todd Phillips; Step-by-step rosettes; So you want to buy a banjo; Workshops: Margie & Greg Mirken - Perfect Pitch; Jorge Strunz - High Speed Scales; Dan Crary - "Wildwood Flower"; George Gruhn - mahogany or rosewood -is there really a difference; Tommy Flint - "crosspicking is velocity without trauma; Byron Berline - tips for beginning fiddlers; Review: Heritage H-50 Mandolin; more

1987 March Frets Guitar Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com