Product Announcements

  • Recording King banjos offer lifetime warranty

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    The Recording King banjo company has announced that their instruments will now carry a limited lifetime warranty to the original purchaser. The company is a division of The Music Link, who reactivated the Recording King brand not long ago, a trademark

  • Wechter Guitars and Plek

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    We got a note recently from Abe Wechter at Wechter Guitars about their new Plek fret dressing machine which they use to set up new guitars prior to shipping. The device is a German-made, computer-assisted apparatus that does a

  • Rhythm mandolin DVD from John McGann

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    John McGann is one of acoustic string music's more prolific instrumentalists and educators. He is the 1985 national mandolin champion, and has performed and recorded with a who's who of bluegrass, newgrass, celtic and folk artists. He operates his own

  • Bill Evans – Banjo For Dummies

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    No one who has attended one of Bill Evans' banjo workshops, or studied using one of his popular AcuTab banjo DVDs, would ever accuse him of being a dummy. In addition to his prominent work in music as a teacher,

  • Ricky Skaggs Master Model Gibson mandolin

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    We posted back in October about several new bluegrass instruments which Gibson debuted at the IBMA trade show. At that time, we mentioned the Ricky Skaggs signature mandolin, and indicated that no further information was available on the Gibson web

  • Neil Rosenberg on The Music of Bill Monroe

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    Continuing with a Bill Monroe/Neil Rosenberg theme... I recently had occasion to correspond with Neil about his upcoming book, The Music Of Bill Monroe, written with the late Charles Wolfe, and due for a 2007 release by the University of Illinois

  • Ron Stewart fiddle DVD

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    AcuTab Publications has released their first fiddle instructional DVD, for JD Crowe & The New South fiddler, and celebrated session player, Ron Stewart. Entitled Playing Fiddle In The Bluegrass Style, it features Ron demonstrating ten songs and tunes he has

  • Pete Seeger television show now DVD

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    Pete Seeger's banjo recently ended up in the International Bluegrass Music Museum. Back in the mid 1960's Seeger had a television show that aired on WNJU-TV in New York. 38 episodes of Rainbow Quest were aired, during which Seeger interviewed

  • New Bluegrass Gospel Songbook released

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    Native Ground Music has released The Bluegrass Gospel Songbook, with words, music and chords for more than 100 gospel favorites. In addition to the lyrics and melodies, this new volume includes histories on many of the songs, an overview of how