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Jody Stecher
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Abbot Amboyna photos and story
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher yesterday.
JE Dallas Zither-Banjo photos
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher yesterday.
Self Propelled Banjos and the Marx Brothers
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher Mar 2.
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Jody Stecher commented on Jody Stecher's video
Abbott Amboyna Zither-Banjo: The Dancer's Dream
"My neighbor in San Francisco just received his Abbott Amboyna from Skip in Australia. The heel of his is stamped J Abbott and mine is stamped J G Abbott & Co. My guess is that JG is John senior and J is John Junior. Can anyone confirm whether…"
Jody Stecher commented on marc dalmasso's video
Buck Dance_Jos M Daly_Bj & Pc
"this is so Secret I don't understand it. This is the keys in which they play Chicken Reel? This is the key equivalent of their identity? something else? Chicken Reel in D minor? The chicken must be having a premonition of…"
Jody Stecher commented on marc dalmasso's videoBuck Dance_Jos M Daly_Bj & Pc
"Oh *that* Ut ! The older form of Do. Got it. Yes, fiddlers here tend to prefer D for Chicken Reel and bluegrass banjo players prefer G. It doesn't sound Irish to me."
Jody Stecher commented on marc dalmasso's videoBuck Dance_Jos M Daly_Bj & Pc
""UT" means Ur Text? I'm guessing. Do you think Daly composed the Chicken Reel part? Good playing, Marc."
marc dalmasso commented on Jody Stecher's videoAbbott Amboyna Zither-Banjo: The Dancer's Dream
"good playing , Jody & beautiful zeebee ; fine tune with the Cammeyer ' style signature"
Jody Stecher posted a discussionAbbot Amboyna photos and story
Old banjos have had time to accumulate a history. Sometimes the history is just a story but it adheres to the banjo all the same. Through conversations with David Wade and Ian Holloway I learned something about the history of this model banjo and of this particular "specimen". At one point Jack Abbott Senior was contracted to…See More
Jody Stecher replied to Jody Stecher's discussion JE Dallas Zither-Banjo photos"Maybe because we both like banjos. Say, I just posted a video of my Aboyna, similar to the one you had until last week."
Jody Stecher commented on Jody Stecher's videoAbbott Amboyna Zither-Banjo: The Dancer's Dream
"Ooof. This one's harder to play than Yeoman's Call. Big stretches. Sometimes folks get my name wrong and call me Jody Stretcher. But it still doesn't help. Is it my fault that the dancer dreamed wrong notes and staccato notes where…"
Jody Stecher posted a videoAbbott Amboyna Zither-Banjo: The Dancer's Dream
One of Alfred Cammeyer's most memorable compositions.
carrie horgan commented on Jody Stecher's video
Yeoman's Call
"Yes, Jody, I am familiar with playing closed positions but in a much more limited 'range' than in classic-style. It's an adventure to be zipping up and down the fretboard! I was feeling in a bit of a rut playing bluegrass…"
skip sail replied to Jody Stecher's discussion JE Dallas Zither-Banjo photos"jody,why do you and I end up with the same things?"
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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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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.…
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Posted on November 28, 2010 at 22:16
Comment Wall (15 comments)
- 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 1:08 on April 12, 2009,
Paul Hostetter said… - Then I shall cheer your posts.
- 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
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