Custom Cherry Tub-a-phone! This was a custom order that was canceled partway though the build and now available for sale!
Featuring:
12″ cherry rim with Tub-a-phone tone ring, figured cherry 25.5″ scale neck, richlite fingerboard, vintage headstock, and vintage heel. Additional features include a S-scoop, double point shoes, relic brass hardware and renaissance head! Comes with Cherry Armadillo armrest installed.
This banjo has a wonderful, unmistakable Tub-a-phone tone and great volume! Installed with PBCO clawhammer strings.
Case options: Access Padded Gig Bag w/ PBCO Logo or TKL Hard Case
Signature required for delivery. Carrier will be UPS or USPS.
Rare custom lefty Dobson available! This was a custom order that was canceled halfway though the build and now available for sale!
Featuring:
12″ walnut rim with dobson tone ring, walnut 26 3/16″ scale neck, richlite fingerboard, vintage headstock, and vintage heel. Additional features include a Hawktail tailpiece, S-scoop, JB Schall bracket shoes, relic brass hardware and renaissance head!
This banjo has a wonderful tone with plenty of plunk AND volume. Installed with PBCO clawhammer strings. Add one of our handmade, Armadillo Armrests, and we will be happy to install it for you!
Case options: Access Padded Gig Bag w/ PBCO Logo or TKL Hard Case
Signature required for delivery. Carrier will be UPS or USPS.
In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. These distinctive folk dances, Jamison argues, are not the unaltered jigs and reels brought (read the rest…)
By Kristina R Gaddy (Author), Rhiannon Giddens (Foreword by) An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, (read the rest…)
Banjo Roots & Branches – Edited by Robert B. Winans tells the story of the banjo’s journey from Africa to the western hemisphere. Blending music, history, and a union of cultures, Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument’s West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States.
The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo’s introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus.
Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots & Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados.
Limited supply! This book just went out of print. Get your hands on one while you still can! Wayne’s finial clawhammer book has something for everyone: beginners, intermediate, and advanced players. Includes tabs and lyrics to 40 Old-Time banjo tunes, plus tips on learning tunes on the fly, how to jam, the art of faking it, and improvising.
Limited supply!! This book just went out of print……Get your hands on one while you still can! Originally written in 1973, this book has taught more people to play clawhammer banjo than any other book ever has! This brand new 40th Anniversary Edition is newly updated and improved, complete with spiral binding. It contains the same friendly, clear and simple instruction as the original book, and it will teach you to play 31 old-time classics from the ground up. It’s been said that “Wayne can even teach a frog to play! Give this fun book a try and you’ll see why Wayne personally GUARANTEES it will teach you to play! (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?) 64 pages, 9″ x 12″, includes instructional audio CD with 85 selections!
