Banjo: Guitar links - Mandolin links - Other Links

• Earl Scruggs' Official Site! Read bio and order CDs, books and other merchandise directly from the man. What are you waiting for? Check it out!
  
  
• Steve Huber's Vintage Flathead tone ring has been praised and embraced by banjo pickers as diverse as Sonny Osborne and Bela Fleck.
  
  
• Huber Banjos are finally in production after several years of planning and testing. Visit the site for more info and see why Sammy Shelor says that "this is the best sounding new banjo I have ever heard!"
  
  
• Banjo NewsLetter is the longest running periodical devoted to banjo and banjo playing - any and all styles. Loads of tabs and info every month. Get subscription info by email or visit their Web site, which contains a complete, cross-referenced index of tabs which have appeared in BNL.
  
  
• BanjoTeacher.com Support for banjo students. Books, CDs, DVDs, Tabs, DVDs, Banjos, Accessories and more
  
  
• Rich & Taylor banjos are featured on the new Crafters of Tennessee Web site.
  
  
• The Banjo Man is Pete Pardee's site, with info about banjo players, audio files and free instructional materials as well.
  
  
• Tranjo - the ultimate travel banjo! Sam Farris has made a fabulous, easily-transportable banjo that plays like the real thing.
  
  
• The Jazz Banjo Network is David Crisler's new site dedicated to jazz banjo! Sound files (.ra) and more are there for the taking - both jazz and bluegrass - plus you may submit your own.
  
  
• Angie's Banjo.com maintains a searchable Banjo Teachers Directory. No charge to add your name if you tech or search for an instructor in your area.
  
  
• Banjo-L has a very nice, informative site. They maintain a banjo players directory, a banjo calendar of events, and banjo classifieds.
  
  
• Banjo Tabs and Bluegrass Information This is Phil Mann's collection of tabs. Many good links to other sites here plus a ton of fabulous resources for 5 string pickers. This is a must see site for banjoists.
  
  
• Scott Vestal's Stealth banjo is now available on a limited production basis. Find out how you can own one of these fine instruments.
  
  
• Scott Vestal now has his own site. Find out about his Stealth banjos, check his tour schedule, get info on his recording studio (Digital Underground) and see some pictures of Scott.
  
  
• Sadly, 5 String Quarterly has ceased publication as of their Winter 1996 issue. For two years they produced a first rate banjo publication. Visit their Web site for info about ordering the back issues - sure to be collectors items.
  
  
• Banjo NewsLetter columnist Jack Hatfield has a Web site where you can order from his catalog of books, videos, and tabs.
  
  
• The Banjo Store is the new web site for Janet Davis Music. They specialize in anything bluegrass - instruments, accessories, supplies.
  
  
• Pete Wernick has his own web site. Check it out to see what Dr. Banjo is up to these days. Find info on his Banjo Camps and his recordings and books.
  
  
• Banjo In The Hollow is an acoustic music society based in the Piedmont area of North Carolina. Their newsletter - full of great info, tabs, reviews, etc - reaches folks all over the US. They also sponsor workshops, concerts, and a monthly 'picking.'
  
  
• Harold Streeter has a great web site with a list of banjo, mandolin and guitar tabs and books.
  
  
• Prewar Gibson Banjos is a new site dedicated to just that.
  
  
• Stelling Banjo Works has a new, redesigned site. Read the history of this fine company, see color photos of these gorgeous banjos, mandolins, and guitars, and even check out Geoff Stelling's instrument care and set-up tips.
  
  
• The Mountain Arts Music School offers Cariboo and Caribbean Music Retreats for students of bluegrass,folk,rock and country music.
  
  
• Bill Palmer's site is chock full of intersting and useful banjo set-up information.
  
  
• Gary Price has a Web site where you can get info about his banjos, mandolins, and the famous Price banjo tailpiece.
  
  
• 4Stringbanjos.com features lots of info on tenor banjo restoration and some great links of interest to tenor banjoists.
  
  
• The Austin Banjo Club has a web site for all you Texas 4 stringers.
  
• Patek style tenor banjo - a Czech banjo picker who plays three finger style on a tenor banjo!.
  
  
• Hey you classical banjo lovers... Visit the Classic Banjo Home Page.
  
  
• TexTab is a new software application for typesetting tablature on Windows machines.
  
  
• Chris McGlone has put together a nice page on J. D. Crowe featuring a discography, catalog of published tabs, and photos.
  
  
• Gallery Of Strings is a US importer of high-end, mid-priced mandolins and banjos from four of the best Czech luthiers: Capek, Holoubek, Janish and Zajicek.
  
  
• Visit Joe Carr & Alan Munde on the Web.
  
  
• Bluegrass Northwest has a web site with info of interest to bluegrass fans in Washington state.
  
  
• Bluegrass Banjo For Beginners offers free lessons on the web!
  
  
• Jaroslav Prucha is a builder of fine banjos in the Czech Republic. His Web site contains information and photos of these truly beautiful instruments. They are available in the US from Greg Boyd's House of Fine Instruments.
  
  
• See the beautiful Ome Banjos on the Web.
  
  
• Richie Dotson has put up a nice site where he chronicles his experiments with banjo construction.
  
  
• John Bernuzio's Web site has some beautiful vintage banjos offered for sale.
  
  
• The Local Scene by John Call is primarily geared towards happenings in and around Atlanta, but there is also a very nice history of Flatt & Scruggs.
  
  
• Bayside Banjo Aggregation sponsors a site for 'g-string deprived banjoists,' our four stringed cousins.
  
  
• Gibson Banjos and Mandolins can also be seen on line.
  
  
• Cassette & Video Learning Systems produces some of the finest instruction materials for beginning bluegrass pickers. Their "Banjo Primer" is an excellent starter manual.
  
  
• Download a demo version of TabPerfect,the software we use to generate such gorgeous tab! Sorry... it's Mac-only.
  
  
• TABrite is a software package that allows PC owners to easily create their own tabs and play them back using a sound card. MIDI files are also supported.
  
  
• Washburn Web site - Not too much bluegrass stuff here right now, but a nice site with info on Washburn's line of stringed instruments.
  
  
• Banjo Newsgroup - You need to subscribe to this! A great discussion group about all things banjo! If your Web browser can access your newserver, you can link directly. If not, the address is alt.banjo.
  
  

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Mandolin: banjo links - guitar links - other links

• Mandolin mailing list - There is also a listserv mailing list for all you mandocrucians out there. Get subscribing info here.
  
  
• Herschel Sizemore - A mandolin legend! Read about Herschel and his long career, order his CDs, books and DVD, and find out about private lessons.
  
  
• The Mandolin Pages - Another great site... No tab as of yet, but loads of useful info about 'the little guitar.'
  
  
• The Mandolin Cafe contains a wide range of information pertaining to mandolins, mandolin players, mandolin quartets, celtic music, old-time, bluegrass, jazz, and world music.
  
  
• Visit Butch Baldassari's Nashville Mandolin Network.
  
  
• Plucked String carries printed music for mandolin-family instruments. They specialize in rare classical and orchestral mando-music.
  
  
• Gallery Of Strings is a US importer of high-end, mid-priced mandolins and banjos from four of the best Czech luthiers: Capek, Holoubek, Janish and Zajicek.
  
  
• Sparrow's Mandolin Outfitters offers a number of fine mandolin-related items - t shirts, books and accessories.
  
  
• Dearstone Mandolins are on the web. Find out about their fine mandolins and guitars.
  
  
• Roland White has his own Web site. He is offering some very interesting things, like lessons via on-line video conferencing!
  
  
• Visit Summit Mandolins' web site.
  
  
• Mandolinist.com has a listing of more than 250 mandolinists plus lots of mando-links.
  
  
• Mandozine is just what the name suggests.
  
  
• A mandolin tab archive one the Internet is just a click away.
  
  
• Lots of good info on John McGann's site. He also does custom transcription.
  
  
• See Monteleone Mandolins on the web.
  
  
• Get info about Gilchrist Mandolins at the Carmel Music site.
  
  
• Attention longhair mandolinists! Visit the Web site of The Classical Mandolin Society of America.
  
  
• Nugget Mandolins has a Web site.
  
  

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Guitar:banjo links - mandolin links - other links

• Flatpicking Guitar, a super new magazine for the six-string plectra-picker.
  
  
• Mike Wright's Coastal Fog Flatpick Guitar Page has lots of useful links and info.
  
  
• Guitar Notes is an amazingly comprehensive list of Internet sites of interest to guitarists. A must see.
  
  
• WS64 Guitar Chords - Graphical display of guitar chord shapes, including 6ths, 9ths and other jazz chords. All chords available as MIDI-files. Requitres Java and level 4 browser!
  
  
• The Bluegrass Guitar Home Page is a site developed to be a convenient source of information about the acoustic flat-top guitar and the playing styles used in bluegrass music.
  
  
• C.F. Martin & Co. - you have to check this out. You can get info on all the Martin guitars, read the history of the company, and even do a serial number search.
  
  
• The Dobro®, or, Resonator Guitar Website offers tabs, resources and links galore for fans of the resophonic guitar.
  
  
• Steve Kaufman has a site. Get info on his videos, books, plus his workshops and camps.
  
  
• The Online Archive Of Guitar Links is just what you'd think.
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• GuitarInternet contains tons of useful links for guitarists - plus mandolin and banjo too.
  
  
• Visit John McGann's site for some great guitar tips.
  
  
• Cyber Pickin' Parlor also has a ton of useful links.
  
  
• Allen Guitars has a nice web site.
  
  
• The Guitar Hub is a great resource for guitar info on the net, though it is a bit skewed towards the electric market.
  
  
• Rob Bradley's Acoustic Guitar Page is worth a look.
  
  
• Flatpick-L is the listserv for guitar pickers.
  
  

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Other links: banjo links - mandolin links - guitar links

• The International Bluegrass Music Association is an important industry trade organization devoted to the promotion and development of bluegrass music worldwide. There are voting categories for professionals (including part timers) and a Grass Roots Club for fans and friends. This is a dynamite group which NEEDS your support!
  
  
• Acoustic Endeavors - featuring AcuTab's John Lawless on banjo. This fine bluegrass group from SW VA has their own site on the web. Get info on the group and hear audio samples from their new CD, Sneak Preview.
  
  
• Bluegrass Music Profiles - bi-monthly print publication that focues on the personalities of your favorite bluegrass artists.
  
  
• SPGBMA (Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America) has a site with membership info and details about SPGMA sanctioned events, the Fan's Choice Music Awards and theie International Band Championship.
  
  
• The Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, VA is perhaps the premier contest festival in the world. Visit their new Web site for info, registration forms, last year's winners, and much, much more.
  
  
• Bluegrass Central is a radio show from San Deigo, CA (hosted by Mike Tatar) which can be heard online.
  
  
• Strum Hollow Acoustic Music offers free tabs for many instruments, plus a nice variety of straps and other hard to find instruments.
  
  
• Bluegrass Unlimited has completely updated their Web site. Get subscription info, browse back issues, check out new releases, and more.
  
  
• Bluegrass Now magazine has their own site which includes their monthly Bluegrass Top Twenty.
  
  
• The Dobro®, or, Resonator Guitar Website offers tabs, resources and links galore for fans of the resophonic guitar.
  
  
• Southwest Bluegrass Association promotes bluegrass in their part of California.
  
  
• Round Barn Jubilee is a new site from the folks who publish the Tennessee Grassroots Music newsletter.
  
  
• DigiBid is an auction site exclusively for musical instruments and pro audio.
  
  
• The Sterner Capo Museum is just that - an online exhibit of capos, including useage tips and an historical overview! A wonderful site.
  
  Musician's Workshop has a wide variety of instructional materials in video, DVD, cassette and book form for a number of different instruments.
  
  
• Bluegrass Rules is a new web site with some great bluegrass sound files.
  
  
• Blue Ridge Traditions Magazine offers a great glimpse of life in our part of the country, including a lot of info on bluegrass and old time music.
  
  
• Bluegrass-Festival.com offers announcements of bluegrass events and festivals from around the world
  
  
• Virtual Band Bluegrass Method offers tabs in Acrobat format. Each tune is available in corresponding arrangements for banjo, guitar, mandolin, bass, dobro and fiddle.
  
  
• Mountain Music Apparel says they are the bluegrasswear superstore. High quality shirts, caps and other apparel with a bluegrass theme.
  
  
• Just Strings stocks the complete catalog of 35 string manufacturers.
  
  
• The Fletcher Girls is a family group in the great Northwest.
  
  
• The Oakboro Music Hall is a venue in Oakboro, NC which promotes bluegras shows throughout the year.
  
  
• Charlie Waller & The Country Gentlemen Tribute is just that - a nice site from Hank & Betty Richards.
  
  
• TablEdit is a Tablature Editor for guitar and other instruments - runs under Windows (3.1, 95, 98, and NT).
  
  
• Visit Europe's biggest bluegrass site.
  
  
• The Bluegrass Classic is fast becoming one of the "don't miss" festivals of the summer.
  
  
• Bluegrass Australia is a site with info for bluegrass fans "down under."
  
  
• The North West Bluegrass News is a free, online bluegrass newsletter with news and info on happenings of note in Northwest England - and beyond!
  
  
• The Swiss Bluegrass Association has their own site.
  
  
• Northern City Limits ia a bluegrass band from Ontario.
  
  
• Bluegrass Radio Network allows you to cast your vote for the bluegrass song of the week.
  
  
• The Sterner Chordkey provides tables and tips for finding chords on any stringed instrument.
  
  
• Colorado Case Company makes well insulated, well padded, weathertight soft cases and case covers for banjos and many other instruments. They also do instrument straps for banjo, guitar, resonator guitar, and mandolin.
  
  
• JustStrings.com is an Online Musical Instrument String SuperStore that claims to have the world's largest selection of musical instrument strings plus industry news, discussion, reviews and interviews.
  
  
• Stringed Instrument Division is on the web.
  
  
• Bluegrass World is a new site which features Bluegrass music artist, festivals, record companies, catalogs, radio stations, manufacturers, supplies and bluegrass music links.
  
  
• iBluegrass is a new bluegrass e-zine.
  
  
• County Sales is now on-line! These folks maintain an exhaustively complete catalog of bluegrass, old-time, early country, and folk music recordings.
  
  
• The Britsish Bluegrass Music Association has a nice web site - you can even read their newsletter on line.
  
  
• The Fretted Instrument Guild of America has a site - an important organization for acoustic music luthiers and repair techs.
  
  
• Doobie Shea is on the Web! This is the home of both Doobie Shea Records (The Stanley Tradition) and Doobie Shea Studios, both run by Lonesome River Band founder Tim Austin.
  
  
• Mugwumps Online is the Web site for the venerable publication for serious musical instrument collectors.
  
  
• John McGann's Custom Transcription Service is a great way to learn your favorite licks/solos - if AcuTab doesn't have them.
  
  
• Bluegrass Connection is a must see - tons of artist information including lots of sound files from recent recordings.
  
  
• BluegrassL - The original bluegrass mailing list! Another must... the bluegrass industry heavyweights are here - plus a bunch of interested pickers and fans. To subscribe just click on the BluegrassL link above and then carefully type (or copy and paste) the following words:
  
  GET BGRASS-L LOGINFO
  
  into the message field of the email form that appears.
  
  
• Homespun tapes has their catalog on line. These are invaluable learning aids for players at any level.
  
  
• EMusic - Another online CD source. They did not have as much bluegrass, but here it is all the same.
  
  
• D'Addario Strings are well known to bluegrass pickers.
  
  
• The House Of Fine Instruments has several new pages of instruments and accessories and parts, as well as a links page.
  
  
• Canadian pickers! Visit the site sponsored by the Ottawa Valley Bluegrass Association .
  
  
• Climate Control Case Covers provide the ideal protection against weather damage to your beloved instruments.
  
  
• The Fiddle Web This nice site for lovers (and players) of the devil's box has just been updated and redesigned.
  
  
• Cybergrass, An Electronic Bluegrass Magazine You must check this out, if you haven't already. It's just what the name suggests. Lots of info, lots of links.
  
  
• Back Porch Music's Web site contains a wealth of information about acoustic string music, plus lots of tips on how to learn to play it! You can also order instruments and accessories on-line.
  
  
• Malahat Mountain Music is a great source for both recordings and instructional books/tapes for the resophonic guitar.
  
  
• Acoustic Musician Magazine maintains a Web site. There is not a lot of banjo or bluegrass, but it is a nice site run by some nice folks.
  
  
• Planning to attend a bluegrass festival? Visit the searchable FestivalFinder for dates, places, and contact info.
  
  
• Folk Of The Wood offers free, on-line lessons for banjo, mandolin, dobro, guitar and dulcimer plus a load of tips and tricks as well as book and CD reviews.
  
  
• Mountain Folk is a syndicated bluegrass radio show hosted by "East Side" Dave Kline.
  

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