Old Time Mountain Banjo

An Instruction Method for playing the old-time five-string mountain banjo based on the styles of traditional banjo-pickers. Dedicated to all the pickers and singers who made this music over the years. Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Ethel Raim who really got this project started and whose encouragement and criticism helped i through to completion. Thanks a-plenty to my wife, Margo, who was working on another special project during the writing of this book, but whose love and moral support meant more than I can say. Drawings by Art Rosenbaum. Cover design by Ronald Clyne, photograph by John Cohen: Mr. and Mrs. John Summers, near Hazard, Kentucky, 1959. Book design by Jean Hammons. Originally published 1968, Oak Publications.