So, where was Gribble "tuned to"? Where are the Baxters tuned to? Where was Frasier tuned to? SGW ... <image.tiff> ... <image.tiff> ... <image.tiff>...
Don Pedi's 2-hr weekly radio show, "Close to Home" from Asheville, NC is now on the internet. Great variety of old time and blues music for listening at your...
... Are you sure, Allen? I do believe that I've seen listings for capos in earlier music-store catalogs (and Sears Roebuck as well). My apologies for the blank...
calfskinhead" <wkoken@...> wrote: "...I was intrigued by the review by Joe Ayers of Joe Weidlich's compendium of the minstrel banjo "tutors" published...
Hi Andy, ... You Cleveland, Kent, Akron lot have to be the most gracious and generous folks I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. While your offer is very...
After Joel and friends, I have two original musical merchandise catalogs in my collection and guitar capos called "Capos D'Astros" are found both in the 1891...
On the subject of capos here is the text of an email I received from Federico Marincola. ... Hi Raphael ! The Italian musicologist Dinko Fabris once told me ...
Tom, Sorry about that. The machine got ahead of me. I wasn't a Ragtime Sheik: That was Joe Larose, Gary Hawk and and Tip Goodall, along with Chris Rietz....
From the 1896 Sears Roebuck Catalog Guitar Capo D'Astros. Used to clamp on fingerboard to facilitate playing in flat keys. No. 71110. Brass, nickel plated,...
... to? ... With every old time music record, and lost of bluegrass. pretty much all of the blues, unless a piano is involved, the way to figure that is not...
... and guitar ... Barnes ... Catalog. "Capos D'Astros" are ... Catalog. ... I dont know about recordings before the 1920s or 1930s but for Guitar position...
I should add my knowledge of the pains of tunings before the electronic tuner era were tempered by the fact that for several years along with the guitar, I...
Matt, there's no doubt that guitar capos were used back then, but there's nothing to indicate that they were used on the banjo. Nothing to contradict that, and...
Greetings, I am a blind, white male, quaker, musician, with a great love of, and interest in traditional music, an dthe history of American music. I play a...
... You haven't tried yet with this fiddler, Allen. One of these days we must have some tunes together, pitched wherever sounds best (I used to have a mean...
... Though he told Stu Jamieson that he usually tuned a few steps below standard (but not using this verbiage), Stu loaned Murphy his Whyte Laydie, and I hear...
Joel and Friends, I re-checked many of my older banjo catalogs and did not find capos listed for banjo use. As Joel notes, this does not preclude banjo...
All this seems to mean that while tuning in concert pitch is a convenience given tuners etc and the need for a combined standard, other tuning possibilities...
Hello All, ... And the several piano tuners with whom I am acquainted will happily (if allowed, eg for a home piano) tune an old piano a half step or so flat...
There's an interesting event being held in Conventry, LA (north side of lake Ponchatrain), this event will create a fund that will pay musicians to go into the...
... Sue Truman also was an original member of the Geeks. Tip also goes by "Tim." ... Not at first though, that position came a bit later. ... Sue Truman and...
I can chart this if anyone cares... Kerry Somehow I see finding one of the several grant writers in this group or in the OTM milieu, getting a multimillion...
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