San Francisco / Manchester / Philadelphia / Park / Kalamazoo / Hartford / Dixie / Groton / Dublin / Urbana / Boston / Baltimore / New York / Belfast / Jersey City / London / Chicago / /
Company
Ditson’s / Centerstream Publishing / Bacon Banjo Company / University of North Carolina Press / Dubliners / Lyon & Healy / Flanagan Brothers / Crescendo / Google / Vega / Miller Freeman Inc. / IrishAmerican / The Bacon Manufacturing Company / Briggs & Co. / William Boucher / Rettberg / Tom Cussen / McFarland & Co. / /
Continent
America / Africa / /
Country
Senegal / United Kingdom / Argentine / Congo / Gambia / United States / Angola / Ireland / /
Currency
USD / /
Facility
University Press / University of Illinois Press / Chapel Hill / Dance Hall / University Park / University of Oklahoma Press / Yale University / /
IndustryTerm
drum maker / banjo maker / metal tone ring / early advertising / instrument makers / metal / fretted instrument magazine / short metal cylinder / few banjo makers / /
MusicGroup
the Tulla Ceili Band / /
NaturalFeature
Edward Island / Chapel Hill / /
Organization
Four Star Quartet / University of Illinois Press / University of Oklahoma Press / Four Provinces Orchestra in Philadelphia / University of North Carolina / Yale / Yale University / American Guild of Banjoists / Mandolinists and Guitarists / /
Person
John Hoft / Percy French / Jimmy McDade / Jimmy Ward / Robert Lloyd Webb / Shlomo / Tommy Makem / C.F. Bruno / Johnny Keenan / Charlie Piggott / Aughrim Slopes Ceili / David Day / Noel Strange / Louis Calabrese / Owen Hackett / Earl Scruggs / Fred Van Eps / Neil Nolan / Seamus Cooley / Dave Boyle / Harry Reser / Ralph Stanley / Clifford Essex / Mick Moloney / Walter Carter / Dan Tracey / Dan Emmett / Tim Flood / Bill Whelan / John McKenna / Seamus Egan / Oscar Schmidt / Charles McNeill / Eddie Peabody / James Wheeler / Louis Stepner / Leo G. Mazow / Anna Boyle / Joel Walker Sweeney / Dixieland / Don Meade / Mike Flanagan / Vega / Jack Mulkere / Joel Walker / Dick Stephenson / John Dunne / Dan Sullivan / Eddie Herborn / Karen Linn / Philip F. Gura / Joe Sweeney / Connor / Liam Farrell / Mark Simos / Kieran Hanrahan / John Grey / J.B. Schall / Benjamin Bradbury / Michael Gaffney / Early Minstrelsy / James Bollman / / /
Position
instrument dealer / banjo historian / businessman / sound forward / violinist / banjo recording artist / same manager / player / head / Guitarist and fiddler / MTR writer / designer / tenor banjo player / Ditson manager / manager / classical violinist / banjo player / capable player / teacher / model / singer / eightstring model / flute player / writer / musician and historian / unnamed mandolin orchestra player / fiddler / /
Product
Banjo / Washburn / Orpheum / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Virginia / Prince Edward Island / Indiana / New York / Connecticut / Michigan / California / New Jersey / /
The Irish Tenor Banjo by Don Meade The tenor banjo is only about a century old and was not widely played in Ireland before the 1960s. Until recently, in fact, the instrument had a fairly poor reputation among traditional