| "Rogues Gallery" |
| "I'd like you to meet some of my past and present students from all over the world". Don Van Palta |
| Peter Mezoian, ME, USA "I owe a great deal of my playing and career to Don Van Palta." |
| Don Stevison, OH,USA "Just a pickin' an' a grinnin'" |
| Bill Little, AZ, USA "Don did all the work and I'm having all the fun." |
| Jackie Lynn McCoy, OH, USA "Heeeeeere's Jackie" |
| Buster Mondello, TX, USA "Decisions, decizions, dezizionzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" |
| Gary Hicken, MD, USA "Thanks for getting me started in the greatest direction of my life (next to meeting my wife!)" |
| John Mumford, CO, USA "Click on my mug to go to my Jazzbanjo website." |
| John & Charlene Taber, WA, USA "We love to entertain." |
| Robert T. Dooley, OK, USA "Me and my Richelieu." |
| Good Shepherd Seniors Jazz Band, Cincinnati, OH, Bill Cleary on the banjo "We are playing the Retirement Homes, Nursing Homes, Seniors Church groups, etc. We love what we're doing!" |
| Pete Donaldson, Kingwood, TX "Me and my Paramount Leader are sounding better by the day." |
| Pastor Steve McCoy, Neptune Beach, FL "I am progressing steadily." |
| Carmel Finn & Ray Towers, Palm Beach "We're wooping it up at Australian's 60th Jazz Convention in Lismore, N.S.W." |
| Rick Sanders, Merrill, Iowa "Banjo music will live forever, let it flow from your heart." |
| Jerry Unger and his Arkansas Shrine Music Club "Our banjos may be fakes but just wait until you hear us play for one of those wakes!" |
| Maxine Pomeroy and friend, Dewey, AZ "I'm enjoying my new short-neck banjo. It accommodates my little tiny fingers a lot better." |
| Torvald Netterby, Sweden "Thanks Don, the neighbors aren't complaining anymore!" |
| Banjo Barry Calben, Port Jarvis, NY "Performing on my Eddie Peabody Vega Vox Deluxe at the Allenberry Resort, Boiling Springs, PA." |
| Alan "Papa Al" Hamilton, USA "My tremolo is coming right along. By the way, the vest uses a lot of batteries!" |
| Jackie Lynn McCoy OH, USA "Heeeeeere's Jackie . . . . . again!" |
| Bob Irwin, "Banjo Bob", Fruitvale, BC, Canada "Moe Boyler said to me before he passed: You are a BB playing a B&D" |
| Paul Badey, Media, PA "Don, could you help me find a banjo with a neck I can wrap my fingers around?" |
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| Dean Bennett Mount Vernon, Maine "A Bacon & Day Silver Bell #1. My pride and joy." |
| Pete Donaldson . . . again! "See Don, I fixed my elbow, so quit pickin' on me!" |
| Mike Bevan, Isle Of Wight, England "That's me with my beloved Clifford Essex Banjo." |
| LLeo Skovgaard Ringe, Denmark "It doesn't hurt to have your picture taken . . . only afterwards! |
| Chip Lillie, Media, PA "I'm with the Philadelphia Irish String Band. Come join us if you play a string instrument and you too can look like me!" |
| John Mullen, Kinghorn, Scotland, UK "Wow! This is bigger than my old ukulele, But thanks to Don I'm already making music with it!" |
| Mel Bernstein, USA "Possibly the oldest beginner on the plectrum banjo (almost 72). But Don will teach me, if I sit up straight, hold the banjo at the correct angle, arch my fingers, hold the pick properly and keep my elbow away from my body!" |