Oldtime Music , Banjo, and Fiddle Links

Roots of American Fiddle Music-Vol.1

OLD TIME MUSIC

• Music in the Digital Library of Appalachia is an incredible archive of music derived from non-commercial sound recordings that document much of Appalachian music's geographic, ethnic, vocal, and instrumental diversity.
• American Memory is a fabulous  collection of digital of photos and sound files from the Library of Congress with a great search engine, amongst them the Henry Reed Collection.
• Folklife Sourcebook is a wealth of Folklife Resources in the United States, including a nice list of state, local, and regionally oriented folklore societies here.
• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage is a wealth of resources derived from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, exhibitions, documentary films and videos, symposia, and other educational materials.
• Honking Duck Jim Reidy's wonderful resource of many early recordings in Real Audio format.
• Sugar in the Gourd is John Salmon's nice no nonsense page of a straight oldtime music stream.....26 hours.... some older recordings.
• Musical Traditions magazine of England with a great deal of information on  traditional  music from around the world.
• Folk Song Database is a tremendous cross referenced database of sevcral thousand tunes and songs.....thank you Jane Keefer! Search for Title or Performer bypasses the home page and gets you to the database quick.
• Old-Time Music Home Page is David Lynch's page with some good links including the Old Time Musician's Directory.
• Fiddler's Companion is a huge encyclopedia of fiddle tunes from the Celtic, British and American traditions, created by Andrew Kuntz.

BANJO

• Suppliers of Skins is my page of skin sources and the S.S.Stewart's excellent tutorial on mounting a skin head on a banjo.
• Four String Banjo Links is Noel Induni's great page of many banjo links and info.
• Mugwumps is Mike Holmes page with lots of info including the American Banjo Makers page.
• Banjo Gallery is a vast array of old photos relating to banjo players....lots of good ones here!
• Clawhammer.com is a nice site with links to tabs,etc. Irish Tenor Banjo is a page of info and links on the irish tenor.
• Mandolin Brothers selection of old time banjos for sale.
• Elderly Instruments selection of old time banjos for sale.
• The Music Emporium's list of 5 strings for sale.
• Gruhn Guitars has a few open backs in stock usually.
• Bernunzio's usually has a great collection of old banjos.
• E-Bay's On Line Auction listing of banjos.

FIDDLE

• American Memory is a fabulous  collection of digital of photos and sound files from the Library of Congress with a great search engine, amongst them the Henry Reed Collection. Some of the photos on this site are from here, such as the the Bill Hensley images.
• The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip is also here and is a wonderful archive.
• Violin Making by Hans Johannsson is an excellent site with great articles on violin construction and maintenance.
• Dutch Violin Page is an excellent site with maker links and links to informative articles.
• The Fiddler Database contains names of fiddlers, teachers, contests, jamborees, camps, schools, organizations, and publishers of magazines, sheet music, web pages, cassettes, CD's and so on.
• Fiddler Magazine has excerpts from their current issue. I have gotten a lot of good info on fiddlers from their posted pages.
• VioLink has good links to makers, organizations, etc.
• EBay Auction always has fiddles up for sale.....this link should get you search results.
• Elderly Instruments always has a great selection of everything....follow this to see fiddle list.
• Southwest Strings is a good violin and accessories shop ....cheapest string prices that I have found anywhere.
• Maestronet has downloadable sheet music and rare string instruments.
• Shar Fine Instruments is a good violin dealer with quality instruments for sale as well as accessories.
• Stamell Stringed Instruments is a shop in Amherst, Mass. that has quality fiddles.....no prices are posted however.
• Johnson Stringed Instruments claims to be the the largest New England dealer for fiddlers and this link gets you past their slow loading home page to the instrument list.
• Kloss Violins is a dealer/restorer with a stock of high end fiddles.