Welcome to Brian Hefferan's Living Room...
As you walk in the front door, you see to your right a fancy old upright
piano. A few selections from my collection of old sheet music are on the ledge
above its keyboard. There's a ukulele hanging on the wall and a
banjo leaning against an overstuffed chair. Across the room are dozens of
stacked crates filled with lp's and 78rpm records. Above the mantel is a
framed 6x45 inch photograph of hundreds of banjoists (278k).
If you look around more closely, you'll learn more about my musical interests.
The music of The Heftone Banjo Orchestra, an all-banjo band, is playing on the stereo.
It's hard not to notice the prototype the Heftone String Bass I'm developing. It looks like nothing you've seen before...
On the coffee table are some mail order music catalogs from my employer, Elderly Instruments, an exquisitely artful kazoo, an album of vacation photos from a recent trip to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, and a loose snapshot from Minnesota.
My computer and modem are to your left, and there's a good chance they are on line right now. To see some of my favorite net hangouts as of 1996, check out my Bookmarks
I like to play banjo (bluegrass, old-time, tenor, & others) ukulele, fiddle, saxophone, guitar, Heftone string bass, lap steel, and probably a few more. I like to sing popular songs from the 1920's, which I learn mostly from the old sheet music and 78rpm records I collect. Vocally, my main influences are Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike), Johnny Marvin, Nick Lucas, Frank Crumit, and Gene Austin.
I have a modest collection of old 78's. I'm especially interested in popular
singers from the 1920s, ukulele players, early 5-string banjoists (Ossman,
Bacon, VanEps, ect), Hawaiian music, western swing, bluegrass, old-timey,
early country, black gospel, & jump R&B.