X-braced banjo lute playing in double C

plectrum banjo, guitar mandolin..

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Reference recording for the tab posted--view my tabs here.

Here's a poor quality snippet of a dance we played. I understand it was recorded on a hand held device from a table alongside the dance floor.

A nice Celtic tune used as a contra dance tune here in America, it is in Em and only uses two chords (also a D, but it has a dramatic, catchy melody.

Banjo - aDAde

Learned from my fiddle version of the transcription in Sameul Bayard's "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife". A copy of the notation can be found at:

https://tunearch.org/wiki/Cheat_River_(The)

Banjo - aDAde

Hobo Pie (Barbara Johnson and Carl Baron - fiddles, Ray Frick - banjo and Bob Woodcock ? guitar) in a medley with a Ray Frick original ?Cricket in the Wood? (recorded at Gwynedd Friends Coffeehouse in April, 2003) and on the CD "we might as well be live".

This was for an A/B test of a few devices claiming to "greatly improve sound and volume of any banjo" See if you can notice where with and without takes were swapped; and guess which is which.

Sorry for the little slow lopey pace... was paying attention to experiment.