"They are rare but not worth 15K. I can't imagine someone paying such an elevated price."
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"Long ago I had a similar Weymann as a loan for a year. It was superb. I am seriously tempted to buy this myself although I have not been acquiring any instruments in the past few years because of my advanced age. I have not found Gotoh…"
"My favorite Oakley piece (he co-wrote it) is Sweet Jasmine. It's a bit of a project to learn though because it has many parts.
So many good Cammeyer Pieces: Down Devon Way, Dancers Dream, Yeoman's Call are the first 3 that come to…"
"Both SS Stewart's look promising. I would not want the Benary. The one at the top of your list has an appealing price but don't know how it sounds."
An Old Fashioned Breakdown by Joe Morley
"Splendid timing and played with great verve. "Yay" indeed!"
"I think I know who might want this. I'll let him know. "
"Time flies. Prior to 2008 a David Day era Vega Whyte Laydie #2 usually sold for $5000. OK, this one doesn't have the fish monster on the peg head. I prefer a star."
"I saw a post about wanting to trade for an SS Stewart. That post had no link and no price and no mention of wanting to sell instead of trade. Why such a low price? It seems too good to be true."
"What is the year the Whyte Laydie was built please? What is the price?"
"I have done that and maybe Marc Dalmasso has. But I can't recall having seen old notation where this is indicated. Maybe it exists."
"A steel string that is fatter than the 5th string nut is likely to cause a buzz. A nylon string can sit right on top with no part touching the slot and sound just fine. There are reasons to *replace* a fifth string nut. Bone can sound better…"
"It looks nice and the price is low. My only concern is the short scale. Only 25 inches. That is very short. You might have to use heavier strings than normal to avoid a floppy feel in the strings,
Most will disagree with me on the…"
"Yes. I wasn't doubting that Morley used the index on string 1 after the triplet. Not at all. I was just surprised. "
"The thumb-index movement is related to how a plectrum is used. Although the plectrum movement is *powered* by the wrist or forearm, the thumb *guides* the pick downward and the index guides it up. As a mandolinist since age 12, I naturally…"
"Yes, that's what I'm saying. That is the usual order. But Joe Morley in his tutor book is the only one of his era who advocated or even permitted the thumb to touch the 1st string. So I was surprised that he advised +. .. . for…"
"Right. That's the usual annotated fingering. It's a bit of a surprise to me since Morley differs from most others in using the thumb on the 1st string. I would have thought he'd indicate x . .. x (TIMT)"
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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
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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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