Banjo Players and Friends -- Page 2


Dr. Ralph Stanley leaving the stage at the Yeehaw Junction festival.
Ralph is carrying with him one of the fancy Stanleytone banjos made up for him by Frank Neat.  The Clinch Mountain Boys sounded good that day.

                                                                                                                     Another banjo playing Osborne -- Bobby with is mandolin 
At first I didn't include a picture of Bobby on this page because the title is "Banjo Players and Friends".  But Bobby did play the banjo and he is a friend.  Here he is in a fairly relaxed mood  playing the Fern.
UncleJosh and Earl
This is a fairly recent picture of Josh and Earl.  About the time that this picture was taken, Josh leaned over to Earl and asked, "How did we ever play is so fast back then?"
A very  distinguished group. 
Standing (from left to right); Bobby Osborne, Earl Scruggs, Sonny Osborne.  Kneeling in front; Jason Carter and John Hartford.


Peghead (aka Ron Satterfield) with his toys.
Ron has been a good friend of mine for 2, or 3 years.  He has a few banjos.  From left to right, at Ron's feet, are; a '35 TB-3 conversion (no. 9488-32), a '29 Granada tenor conversion (no. 9261-26) with Frank Neat Neck, a mid-30's TB-11 conversion,  a '35 TB-1 conversion (no. 9464-61) with a 1955 RB-1, Bowtie neck and lastly Hunter, a fine golden Lab.  Both the TB-3 and the Granada have McPeake-Hopkins conversion rings.

Ron actually playing one of the dammed things.


 
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