This is a highly selective index of features, articles and tablatures that have appeared in Banjo Newsletter Contents Index: Banjo Newsletter since its introduction in November 1973, up through October 2006. The bold type listings after the date indicate a Volumes I–XL; Nov. 1973–Oct. 2013 feature or lead article that was highlighted by a cover illustration. (But not always; sometimes Volume 1 18 April 1975 – Orpheum #2 Peg-Head Pattern; there was no matching illustration, and some 1 Nov. 1973 – Start-Up of Banjo NewsLetter; 5-String Rock-Type Lick; 5th String Capo (Re-visited); Pull The Dobro?; First Five Frets Fretless?; TAB: Bristol Steam issues had no distinct feature.) Thus this index Plug Earl; TABS: Liberty; Irish Spring; Over The Wa- Convention Blues terfall; Sunflower Dance; Shelby Rock; Roanoke; I’ll is selective and arbitrary, but hopefuly useful. 2 Dec. 1973 – Pickers & Their Identities; Richelieu Fly Away Columns that have appeared on a regular Mute; Banjo Picker’s Dream; TAB: Santa Claus 19 May 1975 – BILL EMERSON; Old Time Ban- basis (Back-Up, Scruggs Center, Beginner’s 3 Jan. 1974 – Zither Banjo; Neck Truss-Rod; Banjo jos; G Minor Down-Hill Progression; D Tuning Lick; Corner, Chorducopia, Old-Time, Melodic Sounds; Triplets; TAB: Arkansas Traveler Clawhammer, Arrangement Development, 4 Feb. 1974— Gibson Banjo Information (Tom Mor- Bridge Experiments (plastic); Stutzman’s Place; Wey- Clinch Mountain Banjo, Reno Banjo, Shop gan – 1); Banjo Bridge Info; Dillard Style Runs; TAB: mann Peg-Head Pattern; TABS: Flop-Eared Mule; West Talk, etc.) are not always listed, but their Arab Bounce Fork Girls; Old Time Religion; Cuckoo’s Nest; 5 March 1974 – More Dillard Runs; Gibson Banjo column titles are usually listed. Columns 20 June 1975 – Bill Keith Discography; Gibson (Gui- Info (Tom Morgan – 2); Banjo Tips; How Do We Learn?; tar Shape c. 1947) Peg-Head Pattern; Old Time Banjos; are sometimes abbreviated: Back Up = BU, Frets – Care & Maintenance; Stewart-MacDonald Banjo Beginner’s Corner = BC, etc. Down-Hill C Lick; D-Tuning Lick; Stew-MacDonald Kit; Upgrading A Japanese Banjo; TAB: Snow Deer Geared Fifth; TABS: Deputy Dalton; Uncle Pen; Shady Where there is a significant title for one 6 April 1974 – Introducing BNL Little Man Logo; Grove; Buck’s Snort; Foggy Mountain Special of those columns for that month, it is listed. Banjo Bridges; Gibson Banjo Info (Tom Morgan – 3); 21 July 1975 – Gariepy Banjos Catalog Reprint; Columns that no longer appear or that appear Flatted 3rds & 7this; Inlay Procedure; RB-100 Conver- Improvisations on Foggy Mt. Breakdown; Peghead sporadically are indicated; i.e. Keep On The sion; Tailpieces; Liberty Bear Claw Tailpiece; TABS: Procedures; Clawhammer Picker’s Nails; TABS: What Sonny Side; Munde’s Morsels, O’Banjo, On Chicken Reel; Bells Of St. Mary’s A Friend We Have In Jesus; The Route; Minuet In G 7 May 1974 – Gibson Banjo Info (Tom Morgan – 4); The Stelling Side, etc. Use this index as a quick (Bach); All-Brass Banjo; Frets & Re-Fretting; Installing A Geared guide for retrieving items of interest. 22 Aug. 1975 – Paul King; Stelling Banjo; Bb Runs; Fifth Peg; Bill Keith & The Tenor Banjo; TABS: Billy In Homespun Tapes; Bill Keith In Paris; Plastic Bridges The Low Ground; Gold Rush (Re-visited); TABS: Maple Leaf Rag; Boatin’ Up The 8 June 1974 – Tablature Hints; Where Have All Sandy; Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dog Around; Goodbye The Hearts & Flowers Gone?; Instant Ebony; Flat Top Liza Jane The following column or subject abbre- Or Arch Top?; Danger Of Black Instrument Case; Your 23 Sept. 1975 – Clawhammer Banjo Set-Up; Dob- viations are (sometimes) used along with Banjo Dollar; TABS: Cross Country/Crazy Creek; The son Banjo Peghead Pattern; G Minor Tuning; Bill Keith Old Three Fingers Ain’t What They Used To Be column titles: Discography (2); Old Time – Bluegrass Banjo Duets; D 9 July 1974 – Drilling Position Dots; Practice Board; To G Lick; Shubb Capo Modification; Flexible/Adjust- Adams County Banjo (Tom Adams) – TA Old-Time Banjo; TABS: Bach Bouree II; Jason’s Reel; able Thumb Pick; TABS: Buffalo Gals; Rickett’s Horn- Arrangement Development – AD Bill Cheatum; Cripple Creek; Katy Daly pipe; Appalachian Rain; Doc Harris’ Hornpipe; Gaspe Back-Up (Janet Davis) – BU 10 Aug. 1974 – Banjo Picking & Good Taste; Eco- Reel nomics of Banjo Pickin; Weymann & Haynes Banjos; Banjo Workout (S. Nickerson) – BW 24 Oct. 1975 – Innovation In Bluegrass Banjo Styles; Shubb Fifth String Capo; Roger Sprung’s Six Tuning TABS: Fire On The Mountain; Farewell Blues; Ain’t Banjos on the Border – BOB Pegs; TABS: Boil ‘Em Cabbage Down; McCormick’s Got No Name; Tab Index—Volumes I & II Beginner’s Corner – BC Picnic VOL III Fleckology – BF 11 Sept. 1974 – Banjo Sound/Tailpieces; Scale Exer- 25 Nov. 1975 – JOHN HICKMAN; Scale/Chord cises; Sailor’s Hornpipe Lick; TABS: The Sting; Shady Classic Banjo – CB Progressions; Two Octave Scale; TABS: Waggoner’s Grove; Bear Tracks Lad; Money Musk; Walkin’ In The Parlor; Banjolina Clinch Mt. Banjo (R. Stanley) – CMB 12 Oct. 1974 – Ludwig Tenor Conversion; Up-Hill 26 Dec. 1975 – Up-Grading A Banjo (1); Appalachian Concepts & Systems (J. Hatfield) – CS Dillard Licks; Tuning The 5th String; Choosing A Blue- Banjo Lesson; TABS: Follow The Leader; Marching grass Banjo; J.B. Schall Peg-Head Pattern; TABS: Bill Earl’s Way (R. Piekiel) – EW Through Georgia; Jordan’s Hornpipe; I’m Using My Cheatum; House Of The Rising Sun; Big Sandy Bible For A Roadmap; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Lafay- Exploring the Fingerboard — ETF Volume II ette; Gilderoy; Crossing The Cumberlands Fiddlin’ With Harmony (Duets) – FH 13 Nov. 1974 – Ludwig Peg-Head Pattern; DM7 Chord; 27 Jan. 1976 – Upgrading A Banjo (2); Tailpieces; Gospel Banjo – GB Shipley Tone Ring; Tablature Basics; Tips For Wood Puma Paw Tailpiece; TABS: Grey Eagle; Flowers Of Laminators; TABS: Faded Love; John Henry; London In Response – IR Edinburg; Orange Blossom Special Hornpipe; Over The Waterfall; Salt Creek; Theme Time 28 Feb. 1976 – Shop Talk – Why Do It Yourself?; Jazz Banjo – JB 14 Dec. 1974 – Bacon & Day No. 6 Peg-Head Pattern; Vega Sonny Osborne Banjo; Gibson Peg-Head Pattern; Melodic Clawhammer (Perlman) – MC Banjo Amplification; Anchoring The Picking Hand; Tun- Equalization Of String Volume; TABS: Dill Pickle Rag; Minstrel Banjo – MB ing Problem?; TABS: Blue-Eyed Gal; Salt Creek; Jubi- Yellow Rose Of Texas; Crocked Stove Pipe; Clinch lee; Jingle Bells; Index— Volumes I & II Monroe for Banjo (Shrubsall)— MFB Mountain Backstep; Smoky Mountain Pipe; Little Mag- 15 Jan. 1975 – Peg-Head Pattern Epiphone Alhambra; gie Munde’s Morsels – AM Banjo Insurance; Fifth String Nut; TABS: Soldier’s Joy; 29 March 1976 – The 5-String Banjo In North Car- Alan O’Bryant (O’Banjo) – AO Fishing Creek; Dixie Hoedown olina; String Gauges; Making A Neck; Great Lakes 16 Feb. 1975 – Gibson TB-00 Peg-Head Pattern; 5th Off The Record (Bill Evans) – OTR Presentation Banjo; Early Vega Peg-Head Pattern; String Capo Alternative; Banjo Tone; Cutting Abalone; TABS: Wind That Shakes The Barley; Banjo In The Old Time – OT GTR Banjo; Japanese Tone Rings (Bluebell & Tokai); Hollow; Black Mountain Rag; Lonesome Road Blues On The Road – MH (or CH) Shipley Tone Ring;TABS: White Oak Breakdown; 30 April 1976 – BEN ELDRIDGE; Fingerboard & Ragtime – RGB Frosty Morn; Molly Bloom; Kitchen Girl Peg-Head Overlays; Intermountain Guitar & Banjo Co.; 17 March 1975 – Gibson (Scroll 1929-36) Peg-Head Don Reno – RB TABS: Sugar Hill; Beaux Of Oak Hill Hornpipe; Sol- Pattern; Boogie-Lick; Inside Scales/Rolls; Position dier’s Joy; Jack Seen A Mermaid; White House Blues Scruggs Center – SC Scales; Banjo Strap; Circus Lick; Banjo Speed; Ty Piper 31 May 1976 – Customizing A Banjo Case; Shaping Stretching the Limits (D. Levenson) – STL Neck & 5th String Capo; TABS: Red Haired Boy; Jesu A Neck; C & A Scales; TABS: Lonesome Indian; Sally The Workshop (Jim Pankey) – TW Joy of Man’s Desiring; Black Diamond; Drowsie Mag- Goodin’; Rachelle In The Marshland/Spinning Straw; gie PAGE 2 CONTENTS INDEX 1974-2013 Whiskey Before Breakfast; O’Carolan’s Concerto; night; Old Lisa Jane Sinful Flirt; Norwegian Wood Blackberry Blossom; Bells Of St. Mary’s; Jack Seen A 45 July 1977 – J.B. Schall Banjo c. 1900; Two-Finger 54 April 1978 – Four Banjos (Imperial; Lane; Mermaid; Jerusalem Ridge; Style; Creating Counter Melodies; Turning & Fitting A Nichols; Stelling); Keep On The Sonny Side; Using 32 June 1976 – Vintage Banjo Company; Banjo Wood Rim; Banjos & Humidity; Jimmy Arnold; Shubb The Thumb In Chromatic Style; 6-String Banjo Peg- Hardware; Inlaying Procedure; TABS: Downtown Blues; Compensated Bridge; Playing in F & Bb; Bacon Grand Head Patterns (Osborne & Crowe); TABS: Sandy River 5-String Stud; John Henry Blues; Peter Francisco; Lone- Concert c. 1900 Peg-Head Pattern; Gibson Scale Length?; Belle; Ducks On The Pond; Eight More Miles To Lou- some Road Blues; Making It Up TABS: Grey Eagle; There Was An Old Man And He Had isville; Long Black Veil; Columbus Stockade Blues; No 33 July 1976 – Raymond Fairchild; Bill Emerson; A Wooden Leg; Sweet Sunny South; Reuben’s Train; Mother Or Dad; Gavotte From 5th Cello Suite (Bach); Banjo Picker’s Dictionary; 67 Tunings For The 5-String Knoxville Girl; Leaving Town; Rose Tree Hornpipe; Blue Moon Of Kentucky; Over The Waterfall; Polly Put Banjo; Gibson All-American Peg-Head; TABS: Arab Charmaine; Tommy Jarrell; When You & I Were Young The Kettle On; Arkansas Traveler Bounce; Sea Of Heartbreak; Fred Wilson’s Hornpipe; Maggie; Beaumont Rag; Muskrat Ramble 55 May 1978 – JIM SMOAK; Tabbing From Re- Doing My Time; Sandy River Belle; Blueberry Blossom; 46 Aug. 1977 – Custom Banjo: Make Your Own; Key cords; Grading Your Teacher; Stewart 6-String Banjo c. Foggy Mountain Top of D Without a Capo; Fiddler’s Convention – Alabama 1890; Grinding Abalone Blanks; Keep On The Sonny 34 Aug.