old Vega tenor banjo, CDGA.

A tune I heard on a belly dance recording. I'm playing the prototype Octajo octave mandolin banjo by Gold Tone.

Carla Roberts is playing the doumbek, a goblet shaped drum used mostly in the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Octajo - Gold Tone octave mandolin banjo with resonator

Here's a sound comparison with and w/o resonator on the Octajo Gold Tone octave mandolin banjo.

Octajo octave mandolin banjo tuned GDAE.

I'm thrilled to have been asked to do the rollout of an innovative instrument that opens a new world of mando-banjo potential.

The Octajo is a double-course tenor banjo tuned an octave (or lower) below mandolin and violin.

With a 12” banjo rim with bronze tone ring and an octave mandolin neck the Octajo can be strung with either metal or nylon strings. The one on this recording is set up with nylon. Hope you enjoy.

Banjo Crazy Paul

Acker Bilk & The Paramount Jazz Band, recorded this back in 1963. This is in support of a forum topic posted by sethb, some months ago, for the chord changes to Climax Rag. At that time I didn't have this recording, but thanks to the wonder of the internet, here it is, and it's hot!. Don.

This is another fine track off this album. Hope you enjoy.

Acker Bilk & The Paramount Jazz Band, recorded this back in 1963. This is in support of a forum topic posted by sethb, some months ago, for the chord changes to Climax Rag. At that time I didn't have this recording, but thanks to the wonder of the internet, here it is, and it's hot!. Don.