BNL Contents Index
Nov. 1976 to Oct. 1977
Volume IV

37 Nov. 1976:

Don Reno; Black Star Custom Banjos; Engraving; Luscomb Banjo (c. 1888) Peg-Head Pattern; TABS: Road Runner; Taylor's Rag; In The Halls Of The Mountain King; Ragtime Annie; Sleepy-Eyed John; Tom & Jerry; Maggie; Trumpet Hornpipe; Sinkin' Creek.

38 Dec. 1976:

Dean Shultis Banjos; Timing; Engraving; Osborne Licks & Sonic Shapes; National Banjo Method (Dobson c. 1886); TABS: Soldier's Joy; Just Because; Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad; Train On The Island; Weave And Way; Dill Pickle Rag; Essence Of Sequatchie County.

39 Jan. 1977:

Alan Munde; Syncopation; Tommy Jarrell; Engraving; TABS: Down Down Down; John Brown's Dream; Shaking Down The Acorns; Prince Albert's Hornpipe; Little Rock Getaway; Scotland The Brave; Flirtation Reel.

40 Feb. 1977:

Weymann Conversion; Weymann Peg-Head & Inlay Patterns; Binding; TABS: Hop High Ladies; Walker Street Reel; I'll Get Wedded In My Old Claes: Gavotte (Bach); Breaking It Down; Grandfather's Clock; Dark Hollow.

41 Mar. 1977:

Allen Shelton; Harry Lane; Banjo Sound; TABS: I Wish You Knew; The Year Of Jubilo; Sugar Babe; Old Joe Clark; Tennessee; Temperance Reel.

42 Apr. 1977:

Syncopation; Melodic Back-Up; Don Reno (Photos: My Three Sons); Allen Shelton; Peak Sound; TABS: Drunken Sailor; Cluck Old Hen; Fisher's Hornpipe; Old Mother Flanagan; Nola; Boil Them Cabbage Down; Jack Be Nimble; The Unknown Reel.

43 May 1977:

Customizing A Minalco Kit; Jimmy Arnold; Salstrom Banjo Co. (Catalog Reprint c 1965); B Flat, Why Not?; Dobson Banjos c. 1866; Peak Sound (2); Bobadilla Banjo Case; TABS: Doc Harris Hornpipe; I Saw The Light; Susie's Fiddle Tune; Richmond; Sally Goodin'; Maggie Walker Blues; New Camptown Races; Sweet Dixie; Whispering George; Valley Head.

44 Jun. 1977:

How To Read Tablature; Cranford Nix; Tempo Watch; Installing Frets With Epoxy; Jimmy Arnold; Licks Using Chord Progressions; TABS: Cherokee Shuffle; The Keel Row; Cotton-Eyed Joe; Silver Bells; Cowboys & Indians; Panhandle Rag; Tenting Tonight; Old Lisa Jane.

45 Jul. 1977:

J.B. Schall Banjo c. 1900; Two-Finger Style; Creating Counter Melodies; Turning & Fitting A Wood Rim; Banjos & Humidity; Jimmy Arnold; Shubb Compensated Bridge; Playing in F & Bb; Bacon Grand Concert c. 1900 Peg-Head Pattern; Gibson Scale Length?; TABS: Grey Eagle; There Was An Old Man And He Had A Wooden Leg; Sweet Sunny South; Reuben's Train; Knoxville Girl; Leaving Town; Rose Tree Hornpipe; Charmaine; Tommy Jarrell; When You & I Were Young Maggie; Beaumont Rag; Muskrat Ramble.

46 Aug. 1977:

Custom Banjo: Make Your Own; Key of D Without a Capo; Fiddler's Convention - Alabama 1934; Installing 5th String Capo Spikes; Dobson Style C Peg- Head Pattern; Changing Chords With Passing Tones; Bill Boyer Banjo; Gibson Banjo Neck Heel Contours; TABS: Pig Town Fling; Ways Of The World; Cricket On The Hearth; Whiskey Before Breakfast; Sally In The Garden; Bury Me Beneath The Willow; Devil's Dream; Bye Bye Blues; Red River Valley; Wreck Of Old `97.

47 Sep. 1977:

Doug Dillard; Banjo Set-Up - Nylon Strings; Setting Up A New Banjo; Bass Drone; TABS: Black-Eyed Susie; Sinking Creek; Jimmy In The Swamp; The Hollow Poplar; Hull's Victory; Flop-Eared Mule; Hogeye; Pickalong; Foot Prints In The Snow; Fair & Tender Ladies.

48 Oct. 1977:

Garland Shuping; Back-Up Guide Lines; Doug Dillard (2); Hart Banjos c. 1960; Finishing Procedures; Keep On The Sonny Side; TABS: The Whole World Around; Lamplighter's Hornpipe; Waltzing Over The Waterfall; Mississippi Sawyer; Western Country; Money Musk; Christmas Time's A-Coming; Bugle Call Rag; Counterblast Rag; Blue Bell; Done Gone; Index - Volume IV (Nov 1976-Oct 1977).