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Old Cammeyer banjo
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Joel Hooks Oct 31, 2023.
On "Steam Up"
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Dill Pickles: Errors in Clifford Essex score?
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"Richard, I was not and am not the slightest bit offended. I just happen to not be Joel, so I pointed it out.
"Introducing new techniques as a development process" has worked for me as a teacher. My students improve that…"
"I also agree about Grimshaw. But I'm Jody, not Joel :-)"
"I like how you think, Richard."
"The banjo solos in the Music Library on this website are marked in the upper right corner as to whether they are easy, intermediate, or advanced. Perusing the first two categories may provide you with what you are looking for."
"I see what you mean. Mostly the book gives recording dates and personnel. Comments suggesting the common identity of two different titles are incidental. I have enjoyed perusing the book. I don't know if a definitive account of banjo…"
"I think that schelm is the German word for a rogue or scoundrel. Schelmen is likely to mean roguish or as Joel as said about The Banjo On Record, "not to be trusted." As far as I know, there has never been an entirely…"
"Thanks, Ian! I hope it finds its way to Original Recordings. It's a strange little piece of music. It's supposed to be "oriental" in mood. I'm not detecting that. The first part could easily be an…"
"I managed to get an mp3 of Halimar into an email message to Ian/Really Nice Man. When I tried to post it here it turned into a spurious link to a non-existent location. Dream Dance is unplayable. Sorry. "
"Today I was cleaning and clearing some shelves and found a DVD of audio recordings sent to me by Hal Allert containing MP3s of all the recordings he borrowed from me plus more. And amongst them is Bert Bassett playing Halimar and Dream Dance.…"
"To my eye it looks like a nice banjo and not expensive. But of course it depends on how well it plays and how it sounds. Also there are some pictures of wooden objects whose identity and condition is not clear to me. A detached dowel stick?…"
"It was in November 2022."
"I found it but now. 11 hours later, the auction is listed as ending in 6 days and some hours."
"i have played 3 or 4 John Gray banjos and seen photos of half a dozen more. All were peculiar, None sounded bad or good. They were "ok". This one is peculiar enough to be a Grey. 14 tuning hooks? Is this a miniature…"
"The high end estimated selling price is very low for such a good instrument. Even with auction house fees this looks like a good opportunity to me."
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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…
- Jody, Bill and Scott get out the glasses and have a celebratory drink on me! Ian, thereallyniceman
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