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Very Useful Links
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Other Guitar Clubs & Organizations |
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Kentucky Thumb Pickers
Club - the first regional pickers club, Louisville, KY - Alex Dunn, Pres
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"Ye haw!!" |
Georgia Fingerstyle Guitar Association -
nice folks James
"Chief" Childers, Pres
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Guitar League of Central New
York - mostly acoustic crowd - Dick Ward, organizer
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"e'lo, Ol' Chap.." |
Fingers & Thumbs Acoustic
Guitar Society - nice club in England - David Whyte
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Toronto Fingerstyle Guitar
Club - brand new club already with 180 members - Randy Finney
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Tampa Bay Finger Style Players -
monthly meetings - very active - Bob Stamper
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Douai Fingerstyle Guitar Club - this is a
very active club in France
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Delaware Valley Fingerstyle Guitar
Association - Joe Willson, Pres..
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North Carolina Thumb and Fingerstyle Association
- Clay Lunsford - Pres
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Michigan Fingerstyle Guitar Society - New
group located near Detroit - Mark Hawks, Organizer
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Columbus Guitar Society
- our local classical guitar organization - Karl Wohlwend, Organizer
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Texas
Fingerstyle Guitar Association - East Texas, Len Collins, Organizer
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"Oh, give me a home... whar da
buffalo roam..." |
Oklahoma
Fingerstyle Guitar Club - Glencoe, OK - Bill Hodges, Organizer
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Association of Fingerstyle Guitarists -
west coast
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"Who's Bobby Knight?" |
Indy Guitar Society -
Indianapolis, IN - Joe Jackson (317) 542-9567
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Greater
Cincinnati Performing Arts Society - wonderful concerts
throughout the year of world class guitarists - Pete Ellerhorst, Pres. |
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Kentucky
National Thumbpicker's Contest - August - Central City, Kentucky
Winfield Finger Style Guitar Contest
- September, Winfield, Kansas
| Internet Organizations & Forums |
Mr. Guitar -
official Chet Atkins web site
Alabama
Wildman - A great tribute site to Jerry (Reed)
Hubbard. (There doesn't seem to be an official Jerry site, anymore.)
Merle
Travis - A pretty good tribute site to the late
Merle Travis
Chet Atkins Fans - A
nice tribute to Chet and some great audio files of members playing
Minor 7th - A website that reviews the best in non-mainstream acoustic guitar music
The Saturday Night Guitar
Pull - an organization out of Nashville that has plans to visit many major
cities and record "fire side jam sessions" of original guitar music
written and performed by local talent. Columbus is one of their first
cities they visited.
| Tabs,
Tablature Software, and Music |
Table Edit - links to
several sites with great tablature - and, TE software
Fretted Instruments - (tab) Jack
Baker's web site with tons of tabs, and "hot links" to other tab
sites.
Black Mack - (tab) Tons of
tab...
Fingerstyle Guitar
Resource Center - (tab) Lot's of tab.
Freddie's Web Site - (music) I have no idea how
this guy gets all this Chet music out on his site.
Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar -
lot's more tablature - hosted by Bruce Mock
Power Tab - Lot's of tab in
PowerTab format.
Marcel Dadi Site
- tab of the late Marcel's tunes as well as his arrangements of others.
Free Tabs - lot's of stuff....
Celtic Guitar Page by Glenn Weiser
- Celtic tabs, CDs, books, etc..
LickByNeck - Jazz guitar
instruction of the greats...
YouTube - videos of just about everybody and
everything..
GuitarPlayerTV
- some great videos of guitarists.
LickByNeck - on-line guitar
lessons
| Publications
and Newsletters |
Acoustic Guitar
Workshop, Craig Dobbins, PO
Box 8075, Gadsden, Al 35902 - Lot's of Chet tabs and very well written tech
notes..
Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine - s all about
celebrating finger style guitar. Great articles, instructional
tab, and an accompanying CD.
FingerStyle Quarterly - John Knowles
was one of Chet's best friends and co-arrangers. Very fine lessons.
| Local Ohio Performers |
Beelman's Home Page
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Bob Cox - guitar instructor,
performer, and Ball Park Tab writer (Mansfield) |
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John Morgan |
John Morgan is a strong
Celtic guitarist. (Columbus) |
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Tim Cummiskey |
guitar instructor at OSU,
and a great jazz guitarist. (Columbus) |
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Rob Towns |
acoustic and Electric Guitar -
Teaching and Musical Ministries (Cleveland) |
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Bill
Dutcher |
modern acoustic guitarist/song
writer - outstanding. (Columbus)
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Jim
Volk |
modern acoustic guitarist/song
writer - outstanding (all over the place) |
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Chaz
Mechenbier |
rock, pop, jazz, wild-man
(Columbus) |
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Frank
Lefebre |
Electric acoustic - romantic
guitar... (Columbus) |
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Paul
Brown |
Science Gravy Band -
jazz/fusion - but, he plays the best Reed in town (if you can get him to
do it...) (Columbus) |
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Mark
Snider |
classical, easy listening
& Christian guitar... (Dresden) |
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John
May |
classical, easy listening,
instruction (Columbus) |
| Other Members |
Jack Baker |
Fretted
Instruments School of Guitar and Banjo (either hand) - (superb tabber as well)
(NYC) |
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Pete Peel ("Pvee") |
tributes
to Scotty Anderson & Ray Cummins... (Cinci)
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Ray Cummins - "Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around."
- Chet Atkins
Joe Edwards
- Grand Ole Opry Staff Band For 32 Years
Richard Smith - world's most
awesome finger style guitar player (and, frequent visitor to OFGC)
Eddie Pennington - World's greatest
Travis picker - from around Merle's birthplace, besides.
Tommy Flint - Another
legend from Western Kentucky. Has written over 30 books for Mel
Bay Productions.
Muriel Anderson - Internationally
acclaimed classically trained nylon stringed guitarist and composer.
Doyle Dykes - Another international
celebrity of finger style guitar.
Buster B. Jones - Wild, fast, and
comical "claw style" finger style guitarist - and, teacher.
Robert Anderson - a real
"sleeper" of a Chet picker - plays every tune - note-for-note -
incredible
Jerry Reed - "Alabama Wildman"
- a fan's web site for Jerry - Stig Voll web master
Scotty Anderson - One of
the fastest guitar players in the world... from Cincinnati, Ohio
Nokie Edwards - Original lead
guitarist for the Ventures... Today, one of the smoothest finger style
players around
Billy
Denham - Standout player at CAAS every year - from Chattanooga, TN
| Product & Services Sites We Like |
PG Music - producer of Band In A Box
Kangaroo Amp Covers - Custom made amplifier covers
- P.O. Box 120593, Nashville, TN 37212; (615) 361-5537 or 1-800-431-5537
The Ultimate Guitar Case -
Case Sensitive, Hartford, CT
Chantal Cordey -
beautiful hand made leather guitar straps
Fifth Ave Fret Shop, 1597 W 5th
Ave, Grandview, Columbus
Kraig Phillips - Custom guitar
builder and repair.. Grandview, Columbus OH
Case
Sensitive - The ultimate cabinet for
guitar collectors that think they have
"everything"
| "Joints"
in Ohio That Support Guitar Music |
Canal Street Tavern - great
guitar venue.. Dayton
The Strand Theater -
beautifully restored late 1800's vaudeville house - promoting "live"
music, Delaware, OH
Fats Billiards - North-West
Columbus
| Guitar
Stores and Instructors in Ohio That Support "Thumb Pickin" |
Lang Music - Columbus (west side)
Uptown Strings, 23 E College
Ave., Westerville (north
Columbus)
Twin Rivers, Kenny Centre, Columbus (north Columbus)
German Village Music Haus, 350 S Grant, Columbus
Music Royale - , 4012 Presidential
Pkwy, Powell (north
Columbus)
Bluegrass Musicians Supply, 1370 S High, Columbus, OH
Guitar Center, 2100
Morse Rd, Columbus, OH
Worthington Music, 6560 No High, Worthington, OH
Sam Ash, 1690 Morse Rd, Columbus, OH
String Shoppe, 1710 N High, Columbus, OH
Metro Music, 6007 E Main, Columbus, OH
Jerry Loos Guitar Training Center, 3314 Morse Rd, Columbus, OH
Chuck Dailey Guitar Studio, 74 Mill St, Gahanna, OH
Center For The Arts - Westerville, 200 Huber Village Pl, Westerville, OH
Colonial Music, 5598 N High, Columbus, OH
Walker Music & Electronics, 856 S Yearling, Whitehall, OH
I Buy Guitars, 5187 No High, Columbus, OH
Phillips Guitars - Kraig
Phillips custom guitar maker - (614) 975 - 4023
| Palmer's
Personal Non-Guitar Favorites |
Google Search Engine - Just
type in what you are looking for.
Yahoo - Searches, locate people, and maps
US Postal Service - ZIP code look
ups, etc
Repair Clinic - For fear of
law suits, appliance manufacturers (now days) won't give any advice to us cost conscious
"do-it-yourself" home repair folks. This site not only
"tells" you how - THEY SHOW YOU PICTURES!!
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- Our Club Sponsors |
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New
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Guitars
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Funky Junk is a major donor for our Pickin'
Party door prizes and Monthly Prize Drawings
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Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine is all about
celebrating finger style guitar music and the people that make it.
Come celebrate with us.
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Fred Kelly makes some of the best thumb
picks in the music business.
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Mean Bean (used to
be Scottie MacBeans), 660 High
Street, Worthington, OH - the best brewed and bulk coffees in
Ohio. Also, a great promoter of local guitar music.
(614) 430-9028
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Homespun
Video - a wide variety of educational instrument videos. |
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