Check this out

[Hubert Angaiak]

Try the link below to ebay for the banjo instruction by L. Loar.

loar banjo (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43385&item=3726769522&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW)

[acumando]

is it signed? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[mandoJeremy]

Dang Banjo music, I knew there was something not quite right with old Lloyd! Why didn't he go ahead and write some nice bluegrass music for the ukelele?

[TonyP.]

I hope I'm not saying something too obvious, but it's a TENOR banjo, and they are tuned just like a mandolin, only a 5th lower. I found out about that years ago in Frets in a Grisman interview. Them tenor banjo guys played some mean chord melody! If you think about mandolins being in the dumper by that time he was probably writing for a instrument that was more popular by that time.... might be a good book.(as he ducks)

[pathfinder]

Well, he was a noted performer and teacher before joining Gibson as acoustical engineer. #Personally, I think this book is a great buy, because the description says that "the cover is separated at the spine and there is a pink stain on the right margin edge on every page but it doen't interfere with the music.."

Heck, doesn't that mean that it's already 'distressed'? #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif