Guest, Tom played a variety of styles but didn't apply up picking to other than the traditional Appalachian music.

MaJoC the Filk, Pete held the banjo by his strap on the right shoulder like Earl Scruggs rather than the left as is usually done. This freed his arms and hands. I have small shoulders so it doesn't work for me. Pete could balance it on his right shoulder and the weight was distributed by the end of the strap hooked onto a screw eye into the upper side of the long neck, the other end onto a bracket on the body. Bob Gibson had the strap connected in the Seeger way too. The advantage of wearing the strap this way enables a fast change to another instrument such as to a 12 string guitar.