The Unique Joe Morley - Dedicated to the life and music of the great English virtuoso and composer

The American Banjo Fraternity - The ABF has kept classic banjo music alive since 1948 !

The Classic Banjo Home - A vast resource of downloadable sheet music, midi files with history, photo’s etc

Classic Banjo Midi Files - Bill Talley’s juke box of classic banjo midi files and printable sheet music

British Banjo Makers - Joe Bethancourt’s list of British banjo makers with history and dates etc

American Banjo Makers - Joe Bethancourt’s ‘encapsulated history of American classic banjo makers

The Zither-Banjo Web Site - A site proudly devoted to the zither banjo, its players, composers and music

Clifford Essex - An iconic name in banjo circles, here is information on the CE range of classic banjos etc

The New Criterion Banjo Orchestra - Photographs of old banjo bands and sound samples of the NCBO

Rob MacKillop - New to the classic banjo world, Rob’s playing is exquisite. Lots of video links !

Black Tie Banjo - Geoff Freed - banjo and Ann Frenke - piano - great playing and a CD is available

My thanks to everybody involved in setting up this web site, particularly to my wife Jan whose advice and knowledge of design and page layout etc has been enormously helpful. Also my thanks go to -

Eli Kaufman for permission to make use of ‘Galaxy’ LP liner notes and for his help with CD sales in America.

Gordon Dando for the loan of the photo of him and my father and for his help with some of the history.

Rebecca and Jerry Schneider, Bills American friends who made him very welcome when he visited their country and helped produce the 1991 and 1994 recordings. Thanks also for the photo of Dad’s CE Professional.

William J. Ball without whom, for several reasons, this site could not have been made. The collection of scrap books and photograph albums I inherited from him on the 12th April 2000 have formed the basis of this site.