HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — From his home workshop in Henrico County, Tyler Burke carefully crafts banjos. He makes the one-of-a-kind instruments by hand. Burke started by playing guitar then picked ...

KOKOMO – Brian Carver built his first banjo when he was 17 years old using a piece of plywood, paper clips and an old frying pan. He got the idea to make one after he bought a cheap Bean Blossom banjo ...

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Banjos sometimes conjure images of the South. But in East County’s Casa de Oro community sits one of the biggest manufacturers of American-made banjos. The Deering Banjo Co. builds about 5,200 of the ...

Randy Arnold played guitar; he wasn’t sure if he wanted to tangle with the banjo. But when he picked one up and plucked it, the sound hit him right in the breadbasket. “I bought one of those bottom-of ...

It all started with the Kingston Trio. One day in 1963, a San Diego kid and his friends got their hands on an album by the popular folk group. Greg Deering, 12 at the time, recalls studying the ...

Sam Radding spends most days in his backyard workshop off of University Avenue surrounded by guitar bodies. He smells of sawdust and has the wild-eyed look of a mad scientist. He has a bald spot ...

Building on tradition: Instrument-maker Jim Huskins says, “I’m old enough to remember what it was like in family gatherings and community gatherings in the ‘50s and ‘60s. A fiddle and a banjo were ...

EGGLESTON, Va. (AP) - At the end of a road that goes from asphalt to gravel to dirt, Greg Galbreath crafts Appalachia’s instrument. Inside a homey woodshop, he’s bringing the story of an owl and mouse ...

The Scots former gamekeeper who builds banjos for Billy Connolly has vowed to keep making musical instruments until he’s 102. Viewers saw the Big Yin pay tribute to Euan Cattanach and visit his ...

Norfolk-based The Great British Banjo Company, the only large-scale manufacturer of banjos in the UK, has launched a new website offering online ordering for customers worldwide. The website ...