Tim Twiss -

 

Early Banjo Stylist

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When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!  - Mark Twain

     This site is all about the music for 19th Century Fretless Banjo. There are hundreds of songs to be dusted off and brought into modern life. That is what I do.

 

    Click Here to go to my music store where you can sample and download music, and Here to go to my online store to buy CDs and books.

  

       On the Print Music Page, you will find the printed music. These are copies of the originals, obtained by permissions from various sources.  

 

      The Instruction page offers free videos that cover the fundamentals of Stroke Style banjo.

 

      Visit the Books, CD's and Downloads page. You can get recordings of Early Banjo Material, and specially prepared collections and transcripts.

 

      Go to my YouTube site to see videos of banjo songs from this period. Organized into playlists, you will find hundreds and hundreds of tunes.

 

      I play Boucher Banjos made by Bell and Sons of Caro, MI. and James Hartel of New York. Also a gourd banjo made by Jay Moschella.

 

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Early Banjo Primer  - 2nd Edition

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