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		<title>Harmonica Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember going to Dairy Queen when I was only five or six years old and getting a cheap harmonica as the prize in my kid’s meal. While harmonicas are often given out as prizes and considered a basic instrument, refining the art takes a great deal of skill. As anyone who has ever tried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Foundation of Bluegrass</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/210-the-foundation-of-bluegrass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few people have left as indelible of a mark on their craft as Earl Scruggs. The three-finger playing style was in use before Scruggs, but he is the one who perfected the art and made it the predominant style in bluegrass music. Today the style is referred to as “Scruggs style,” as homage to its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gibson Musical Instruments &#8211; A Very Short History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No brand name looms larger in the bluegrass banjo world than Gibson.  The company’s story goes back to the late 1800s when a young man named Orville Gibson, son of an English immigrant, moved from his native New York to the rapidly-growing industrial town of Kalamazoo, Michigan (“Yes”, said the Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Advent of the Electric Banjo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Many people—myself included—think of the banjo as being a traditional instrument that has seen little modification over the years. Just as with guitars, there are several different options for the number of strings that are on your instrument, but this is usually where the deviation in banjo designs ceases. While it is true that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banjo Tunings</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/188-banjo-tunings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banjo Setup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of banjo-player jokes.  One goes “You can drop a shoe on the banjo and make music,” due to the “open G” tuning that is standard among bluegrass banjoists.  Unlike a guitar or mandolin, which must be fretted to make a proper chord, merely strumming the open strings of a banjo (or dropping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D-Tuners</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/184-d-tuners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earl Scruggs learned to play the 5-string banjo on an instrument that belonged to his older brother Junie.  The banjo did not always stay in tune well, and the young virtuoso found himself having to retune mid-song.  Scruggs’s musical inventiveness took it from there, and he soon adapted that mid-song tuning sound into his developing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eddie Adcock</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/180-eddie-adcock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia native Eddie Adcock first came to prominence as the banjo player with the groundbreaking Washington-D.C.-based Country Gentlemen during the 1960s.  His overwhelming technical ability and blending of Scruggs, single-string, and Travis style were essential ingredients in the Gentlemen’s sound, and seminal recordings such as Sunrise and Pallet on the Floor earned the Country Gentlemen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Afraid to Improvise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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As the parent of a beginning banjo player, I have to try especially hard not to seem overbearing. After all, I started playing the instrument when I was precisely my son&#8217;s age, and it&#8217;s tempting to help him avoid making all the same mistakes I made. But I&#8217;ve found through experience that harping on him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anyone Can Make Guitars</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/142-anyone-can-make-guitars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NiceSounds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my senior year of high school, I was required to complete a culminating Senior Project. The goal of the assignment was to develop a skill or passion of your choice, and then present a piece of original work to a group of your peers. I decided to combine two of my favorite activities-music and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trials and Tribulations of a Southpaw</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/139-the-trials-and-tribulations-of-a-southpaw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that both of my parents are right-handed, I somehow acquired the rare gene that creates southpaws. It seems that left-handed people are becoming an endangered species and, personally, I think that it is a direct result of the setup of virtually all consumer products in today&#8217;s world. Nearly everything is designed to [...]]]></description>
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