Old-timey American music is a participatory art form - I think that's one of the aspects that I find most appealing about it. However, not being much of a musician myself, I make my contribution to the community of musicians and ethusiasts who are currently carrying on these traditions through the instruments that I build. I enjoy helping people learn how to make their own banjos as much as I like constructing them myself. Either way, with each new instrument that is made, either by me personally or by someone else, the tradition of the early American banjo is brought a little further back from the fog of times past and placed squarely into the present - a wortwhile accomplishment by any account.

If you see a banjo you like in the gallery, or if you have an idea that you'd like to work on with me, please do send an email. And if, on the other hand, you're interested in the early banjo, but my instruments don't quite fit what you have in mind, visit my "links" page. There you will find the websites of a wide variety of other builders offering all kinds of banjos for sale, from precise, exacting historical reproductions to fantastical interpretations that resemble the banjo in name only.

Thanks for visiting.

-J a y