Can you Help

updated 27/09/2000

From: "Andy Rimmer" webmaster@andyrimmer.demon.co.uk I'm just starting to learn banjo and I am looking for a banjo teacher. I live in Durham in the Northeast of England.
Sender:"John" emihan@hotmail.com I have just started teaching myself Bluegrass Banjo. I live in the Derbyshire area and want to find a tutor
Sender: "Jason" wurzul1@netscapeonline.co.uk Wed, 02 Feb 2000 I live in Somerset. I want a tutor for me on the banjo I am a real beginner and very keen to learn
Sender: " Tony Wisewell" info@learningdesign.org Do you know of any teachers who are located within the east end of London.
Sender: "Philip Holmes" calholm@home.com Thu, 17 Feb 2000 I have an old Ebblewhite banjo that is stamped on the bottom of the heel with J.H.Ebblewhite? any web sites available to research his banjo-zithers?
From: "James Bohun" james@bohun29.freeserve.co.uk Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:55:42 +0100 I have discovered that a cousin albeit 5 times removed was Joe Daniels, otherwise Joseph TOLEDANO. In your own research, I wonder if you have come across the family CLIFTON, Joe, Josh, Alf or Frank. They were comic acrobats, and I have reference to them being connected to a "Nigger " Minstrel troupe, and also a connection with Harry Clifton, of Pretty Polly Perkins fame. Joe Clifton was my great grandfather whos father was Frank alias Ralus, the slack-rope performer. James Bohun The Cliftons Web Site http://www.zyworld.com/JamesBohun/index.htm
Sender: "Alan Tucker" alant@amtelco.com Fri, 9 Jun 2000 I need a tension hoop for an old Harmony banjo that I've had for years and am quite attached to. I know Harmony or Kay sold thousands of these wearing several different brand names. It has a dark brown neck and matching dark brown Bakelite body. I'm hoping you can help me find a replacement tension hoop. I've searched all the manufacturers and determined that I cannot get a new hoop that will fit the drum, so I need to find one of these Bakelite jobs that's in pieces. I really do want to fix up this old clunker - my 14-year-old son wants to play it and that's about how old I was when my dad bought it for me.
Sender: Billvalem@aol.com Wed, 28 Jun 2000 I'm looking for a hard to find bluegrass banjo instruction book entitled "Rockytop Bluegrass Banjo" by Doug Dillard
Sender: angela@yosemite.net 2 Jul 2000 Joe Daniels was my great-grandfather. I have one of his "Defiance" banjoes handmade for his son Alfred Daniels (my grandfather). This banjo is over a hundred years old. I also have a lot of sheet music composed and/or played by either Joe or Alfred. I've heard all sorts of family sagas over the years. Do you have any more info on Joseph Daniels? I'd appreciate any resource you can recommend.
Sender: "Gillian Blanket" neil.blanket@virgin.net Sun, 30 Jul 2000 Joe Daniels (Joseph Toledano) was my great grandfather. I have one of his banjos in my possession which has his name and a number on the back. I was wondering if I could find out how old it is and if I could get it valued for insurance purposes.
Sender: timgal@madasafish.com Mon, 14 Aug 2000 I bought a 5 string Banjo but I cannot find a teacher in my area (Fife Scotland),....do you know of anyone around here?,.....any contacts would be much appreciated.
Sender: "Richard Lewis" lewisville@ozemail.com.au Sun, 20 Aug 2000 I have a 5-string banjo inscribed, where the neck meets the body: 'FRED LANGHAM MAKER LONDON No 0' I'm amazed that an instrument-maker would number a piece '0' and not '1'. Perhaps it is a prototype? It's a beautiful instrument, in excellent condition, with case. I'm intrugued as to what it may be worth.
Sender: Mike Ballantyne mikeb@islandnet.com Mon, 28 Aug 2000 I have come across a six string Dulcetta banjo [#16697] with one of them a short string running up inside the neck a 6-string 5-string. Can you supply any more data? The owner is in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia.
From:"Eddie Green" EdGreenan@aol.com I'm looking for a 5 stringed left handed banjo, but have had no success over the last couple of years. Can you help?
From: "JANE BROWN" prudencejane@cwcom.net Brian O'Connor Fri, 1 Sep 2000 I have my uncles 5string banjo which was built by Jimmy Edwards circa 1938 could you tell me whether it is of any interest
Sender: "Michael Turvey" mturvey@julian.uwo.ca Sat, 2 Sep 2000 Do you know if there was ever a Dobro guitar made under the Reliance name? We have a pre-war wood body Dobro with a Reliance decal on the head but have not been able to identify it.
Sender: michele@hillyglen.fsnet.co.uk Sun, 3 Sep 2000 I was clearing out my garage and came across an old banjo I,ve had for many years, in a state of disrepair. Upon looking up the makers name - Alfred Smith - your page suggests that it was manufactured for him. I was wondering if their would be any value, and where I would find this out. On the back of the banjo it shows on the plate Alfred Smith, Kingston SW,No.3.
Mon, 4 Sep 2000 Sender: AtroposCD@aol.com I'm searching the Internet to see if I can find someone who would like to purchase this Pollman Professional 5 string in very good cond. It plays and sounds excellent.