Ken's Web Pages

Here are the projects currently on this web site.

Old-Time Fiddling

I became interested in Old-Time Fiddling in the summer of 2002. One of my grandfather's best friends (Jim Bryner) was an old-time fiddler. He used to make cassette tapes of the old mountain music for my grandfather. I began learning how to fiddle by listening to CDs I made from those tapes. Below are some of the topics in this area.

Jim 'Ike' Bryner Tapes

Information on the tapes Jim Bryner made for my grandfather, along with some of the music in MP3 format.

Old-Time XML Project

Thoughts about using XML to catalog old-time songs that are available on the web. Using XML people could search from a single location, all the sites that have their old-time songs cataloged.

Samuel P. Bayard Song Index and Performer List

An electronic copy of the song index and performer list from Samuel P. Bayard's book; "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife - Instrumental Folk Tunes in Pennsylvania".