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Page 44 discusses how to move from one chord to another using inversions that share notes and fingering. Also contrary movement between the notes of neighboring chords is demonstrated. The advisability of using the nearest…"
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A Scottish Hornpipe on banjo
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Laybourn's Hornpipe
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A Work in Progress: The Grants Hornpipe
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"1) The influence of Hawaiian music on bluegrass music is certainly real . For example, the prototype for the Bluegrass-ic Emblematic, bluegrass anthem The Kentucky Waltz is a Hawaiian song. I heard the record and there's little…"
"Ah yes, Hilo March. This is a nice reflection of the often overlooked but immensely popular Hawaiian music of Bradbury's youth. I write "often overlooked" because it is. After listening to scads of 78 records of…"
"Pages 40 through 43
Can there be too much of a good thing? Too much of the "diddly-bump" triplet followed by a quarter note that Bradbury is fond of? "Hilo/Hawaiian Quickstep" sets out to find out. My tentative finding is…"
A Scottish Hornpipe on banjo
Charles Grant (1810- 1892) was a Scottish fiddler, schoolteacher, fisherman and composer. His daughter compiled his compositions and published them in a privately circulated book. I obtained a photocopy many years ago and on page 11 found the original version of a compelling hornpipe I had heard some years earlier from various musicians from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.I have seen the title represented as Grant's Hornpipe, Grants Hornpipe, Grant's Reel, The Grants Hornpipe and even The Grant's…See More
"However I can say that doing tremolo or any other technique hard enough to be Loud Enough to be heard in a concert hall is likely to cause injury. Some who try it are lucky. Some are not. As for practice at home at a moderate volume I…"
"A vihuela! I woud not have guessed that. Thanks."
"I'm suspicious about the provenance/ identity of the banjo but curious about the partially seen instrument to its right (in the first photo) with the inlaid wooden pick guard. It does not seem to be part of the auction. "
Laybourn's Hornpipe
I first heard this tune in the early 1980s from some musicians from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. 100 years earlier (1881) it had been printed in a Scottish tune book called Kohler's Violin Repository, I found the book around the same time I first heard the tune played. The tune appears on page 54 where it has the generic title "Hornpipe" and where the arrangement is credited to W B Laybourn. Composer credit is given to Laybourn for other tunes so I assume he did not compose this. It has been…See More
"You're right! And he plays Dance Morisco as well, which the liner notes attribute to Bacon. I have always preferred the zither-banjo side of that LP and had forgotten about these pieces because when I listen to that record I end up…"
"If I remember correctly, Derek Lillywhite played this on his LP. It's an odd piece to my mind and there are plenty of other sentimental banjo tunes which might be more satisfying to the ear."
"RE: Ballad in Eb, check out the piece “Reverie in F” by C. Hind, this is in the Barnes and Mullins method found on this site. They are too similar to just be a coincidence. Despite giving Parke Hunter credit, I…"
"Pages 36 through 39
Pages 36 and 37 take up the keys of Eb major and C minor. The exercises are all instructive and useful and each is designed to develop and strengthen specific skills.
The next two pages contain "Ballad in Eb",…"
"I still don't understand. Is the instruction to sound the string with thumb placed between the second finger and the lower frets? I was trying it with the thumb placed between the 2nd finger and the bridge. Neither produces a clear…"
"I have to admit that I have not really spent much time on "artificial harmonics". Even when I have heard them done well they seem to be lacking. Spanish guitarists have an advantage in that they have fingernail to pick…"
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Banjo Benches at San Francisco Airport!
I was taking a flight out a new terminal at San Francisco the other day and was surprised and amused to see the shape of some comfortable new benches with a new shape. Off topic because they look like plectrum banjos? No indeed, these are Zither Banjo Benches! I'm afraid my mobile phone takes horrible quality pictures but at least the shape was captured. The wave of the future?
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ContinuePosted on November 17, 2011 at 4:06 — 5 Comments
Farland Metal banjo head on ebay
Posted on August 13, 2011 at 20:50 — 2 Comments
clear photos of the missing banjo
Note the copper bass string, the red binding around the pot and the inlay "The Cammeyer Vibrante Royal" These are distinctive.
Posted on November 28, 2010 at 22:16
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- At 4:06 on April 7, 2009,
Trapdoor2 said…
- Jody, regarding the banjo I'm playing in my videos: that's one of Bob Flesher's "Cotillion" (12") models; my main axe for about 6 yrs. Thanks for the kind remarks, I've gone from archtop Stelling "shrill" to "tubby" over the years (in more ways than one!). I have a fiberskyn head on it, Aquila Nylgut strings and one of those Cole 5-footed bridges. I have a small collection of banjos but the Flesher gets all the playing time these days.
- At 5:54pm on March 14, 2010, Joel Hooks gave Jody Stecher a gift…
- At 8:11 on August 19, 2010,
Liz McElwain said…
- Thanks, Jody. Hope to be able to meet you over the Didmarton weekend.
- At 17:08 on September 11, 2010,
Anthony Peabody said…
- I enjoyed meeting you at Backwell, and I am afraid that I assumed that you were a newcomer to Banjo, so please erase from your hard drive any superfluous and quite unnecessary advice. You don't need any encouragement either. I was the bass banjo at the end of the line, filling in the blanks, and wishing I could play better. So you see, you encorage me!
Anthony Peabody
- At 17:48 on December 22, 2010,
Eric STEFANELLI said…
Thanks Jody, to add me as a friend, i am deeply honored !
I would be to give you some piece of information about my banjos making, give me please your e-mail, mine is : eric.pat-luths@orange.fr .
About your music, many people in France like bluegrass & old timey music, and play it, there is many bands, many american banjo players come to France every years to teach, and have many pupils, there is summer country festivals...i was myself a pupil of Tony Trishka in 1978 and and Ben Eldrige in 1982/83, but we can speak about it by mail. Classic banjo is unknow or very few people know this kind of banjo music.
Eric
- At 14:09 on August 3, 2011,
Pam Tointon said…
Thank you Jody I enjoyed that. Nice to hear an original composition, but well beyond me yet as a beginner I'm afraid.
regards Pam
- At 12:51 on October 18, 2011,
Neil Angus Goodwin said…
- Thankyou for the info, that might explain why it is the only Cammeyer I have seen with the metal bands.
- At 23:51 on March 5, 2012,
allan ideson said…
thanks jody for your input.ime a guitarist .i have good instruments ...this banjo .has a lot of volume .also the neck and fingerboard are a work of art .after all these years the neck is straight .....no truss rod.when i master the beast ill put some tunes on ....thanks...allan
- At 21:34 on March 8, 2012,
skip sail said…
hi Jody,met you on your australian tour,we talked Fred Macdowell and Robert Petway and jammed a bit on some fingerpicked blues at Camperdown. Thanks for the welcome to the forum! Skip
- At 7:32am on May 14, 2012, thereallyniceman gave Jody Stecher a gift…
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