The Upcountry Banjo Company -- "Cane Brake Jig" on new Virginia model tackhead banjo.

"Cane Brake Jig" from "Buckley's New Banjo Method" (1860) played on one of my Virginia model banjos I recently made for a customer. The Virginia model typically features a cherry neck with slightly more ornate profile than the Upcountry model (which you can see in one of my other videos:    • "Possum Hunt" -- (listener requested)...  , hand-carved tuning pegs, maple bridge, gut strings, goat or calfskin head, solid brass tacks, and 11.5" rim made from an original 19th century grain measure. Materials and construction methods are all period correct.

While there are several outstanding makers out there creating museum quality reproductions of shop-made banjos from the mid nineteenth century, I began building these tackhead and gourd banjos inspired by originals to fill the need for the plain sort of low tech banjos that average folks were making for themselves primarily in the rural south in the 1800s and even into the early 20th century.

If you are interested in having one made, please visit my business page on Facebook and send me a message: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?.... Or you may email me at [email protected]. I also give lessons.