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SS Stewart on Ebay
Nice SS Stewart Universal Favourite on Ebay Uk - scale length is just over 27 inches according to seller
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Ragging the Scale - Van Eps Banjo Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYaoR-h6F8
A different version of Ragging the Scale than the one in the Original Recordings library marked as Van Eps Banjo Orchestra. I wonder who the other musicians were - sounds like plectrum or tenor banjo.
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"Hi Ritchie - in the UK I would currently expect to pay anywhere from £650 to £950 for a Clifford Essex CE Special in good condition; may be around £450 if it needed work. The woodhoop ones are rarer and may be closer to the top-end."
"Well sure. We have choices. How much choice between strings was available in the classic era? I never fussed about banjo strings when I was a teenager in the 1950s. I took what I could get. And that was Black Diamond. It was like Henry Ford and his…"
"From the little evidence I have on strings for these, they used the same but were shorter scale.
From all that I have read, we fuss WAY more over strings than was done during the classic era."
"Joel, were lighter gauge strings used on the Special models? Or was the scale shorter from bridge to nut?"
"Hi Marc,
In the US, starting in the early 1890s, a "Special sized" banjo (which was 10 1/2" rim and shorter scale) was a banjo designed to be pitched one step above C, or pitched with the 4th string to D and all others one step higher…"
BUSHRANGERS MARCH
"It may not be Bert's finest arrangement, though he was an excellent arranger, but it is probably his most poignant. Bert died at the age of 43 of bronchial pneumonia, having been afflicted for most of his life with lung problems. …"
BUSHRANGERS MARCH
"With all this talk about Bert Bassett I have just scanned an arrangement by him while scanning old BMG magazines.
I don't know if it is his finest :-)"
BUSHRANGERS MARCH
"The score for Bushrangers has now been added to the library, it's a copy of a copy but I've cleaned it up as best I could...Steve."
"The CE special X is the model prior to the CE Boudoir , exactly same construction but 10 1/2 inches ( Boudoir = 11 ' ) It 's a rarity ; i …"
"Oh! This might be a CE Special. It's a less valuable model monetarily but musically desirable if it's all in working orr. Is the hoop (the "pot") covered with metal? Is it all wood? Definitely the price I quoted is…"
" I presumed the missing X was a typo. "
"Thanks, it has CE Special X stamped on the wooden dowel stick, supposed ly dates from 1904/5, is tthat the same as an XX?"
"I am not aware of a Clifford Essex Model called "Special X" . A similar name is "XX Special" and I paid a bit more than the equivalent of $2200 USD and I think I got a fair price. They are very good for classic style…"
Hazel Dell - arranged by Herbert J Ellis
"Very nice sir, well played and sung, I liked this very much, thanks."
"Evidently I was off on what I thought these were worth in an earlier discussion. I was informed that $1200 was a good price.
Provided it is a 5 string, then it was designed and made for what we now call classic banjo today.
I have a later Concert…"
Clifford Essex Special X
Hi,What would be a reasonable price for one of these in good order, and are they good for classic banjo style? ThnksRitchieSee More
BUSHRANGERS MARCH
"And Cammeyer composed music requiring long finger stretches as well. Do we know for a fact that the various composers played banjos with similar or identical scale length? Banjos available to the mentioned composers would have had scales…"
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"Thank you all for the kind comments.
Pär (alt-u-a) brings up an interesting point about fingering, and I wonder if anyone has also observed that different composers must have had different characteristics, given they all played banjos with…"
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