Here's a two-fer: On "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," Merle Travis tells Doc Watson after they've been introduced for the first time, "Say, that guitar rings like a bell." Doc replies, "Yes, it's a good old box; Mr. Gallagher made it for me." Merle responds that "Uncle Dave Macon had one."

Of course it wasn't the only instrument either played--on the record, Earl Scruggs and John McEwen play a duet on "Soldier's Joy," McEwen playing Uncle Dave's banjo. Anyone know what it was?

Does anyone know if Doc uses the same guitar for flatpicking and fingerpicking? Or what kind of banjo he plays?

--seed