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


The TablEdit files were transcribed
using ABC and Midi files from

Paul Slater@Banjolin
Rod Smith@TraditionalMusic
Eric Foxley@NottinghamMusicDatabase
Robin Beech@O'Regan's Tunebook
Maya Whitmont@Old-Time Tablature

jZip for UnZipping in XP
TablEdit and TefView for Tab
Rondo for Midi
Sweet Midi
Acrobat Reader for PDF
Barfly for ABC
FineTunes allows speed and pitch change for mp3 and video
MusicMan from Mireth is an alternative to iTunes

Mike Iverson's Clawhammer Tab and Instruction for beginners is @Bluesageband
Donald Zepp's Online Shop Clawhammer Sound Files
Banjo Hangout
UK Folkies Board
Old Time Music Forum (Europe)
Friends of American Old Time Music and Dance
Chris Walshaw's ABC Collections
Folklife Resource Center at McKissick Museum South Carolina
Folk Music of England,Scotland,Ireland,Wales and America
Sabine and Dick Glasgow's Website
Digital Library of Appalachia
Banjo Newsletter
Cathy Moore's Clawhammer Site
Pat and Patrick Costello’s Weblog
The Session
Folk Tune Finder
Folktunes Archive for Teaching and Learning
National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures
Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded and Printed Sources by Jane Keefer
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