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1880s A Tilley banjo value
Would anyone have an idea of a half decent A tilley 5 strings value . One for sale here in Canada for 350 canadian. it had the first five frets replaced with a brass plate otherwise not bad. thinking it may be a good player for classic.
Posted by steve leuschner on January 9, 2020 at 0:46 — 9 Comments
Guage 20 Nylon Strings
Hi! Can anybody help please? I have trawled the internet for guage 20 nylon strings and can't find ANY! Nylon strings are hard to find and Andy banjo used to sell singles but no guage 20s anymore. Where have they gone? .... as part of a set or on their own they seem the best to me for 1st and 5th string Classic playing, so any help would be great!
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"You are right but it's more fun to make mismatches. Eno can be the Galileo of the banjo. Grimshaw can be the Soupy Sales of the banjo. Cammeyer can be the Howdy Doody of the banjo. ........."
IAN SALTER replied to Pär Engstrand's discussion Historical/original concert programs"Joel,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and understanding of this 'HIP' approach to playing the banjo.
Kind regards, Ian."
"Pick a dozen or so pieces that were published in or before the year you are portraying.
There is your program.
Careful on the Zither Banjo if you are focusing on the 1880s.
Also consider that many did not start using raised frets until the late…"
"I think that Cammeyer was the Cammeyer of the banjo.
Eno was the Eno of the banjo.
Grimshaw was the Grimshaw of the banjo.
Morley was the Morley of the banjo.
Lansing was the...
The banjo is unique with a unique writing style. It is apples to…"
Jake Jeremy Glanville replied to Pär Engstrand's discussion W.E Temlett Zither-Banjo"Erratum. I left out the letter 'E' when referring to my Temlett Academy model. It is of course by W E Temlet, not William Temlett Senior.
Glad you've kept the old tuners. They are not too easy to find and can be expensive. They are…"
"Yes Marc, I still have the old tuners. Hope to be able to use them some day. Specially since they look so much better than the new ones...
Thanks for your input, Jake. I don't play clawhammer on it so that's not really a concern of mine."
"Hi Ian,
Thanks for your input. Yes, I had the same idea, that it somehow would get me "deeper in the tradition", so to say. I'm not sure it would work though, primarily because we live in a different time and therefore have very…"
Beethoven on the Banjo
So, inspired be Aaron Jonah Lewis project "Mozart on the Banjo", where he plays music by Joe Morley (a great album, by the way. Get it while you can!) and because 2020 is a "Beethoven year".Who would be the Beethoven of banjo music? :-)See More
"Cheers, Jake. I recorded a mini album - just under half an hour - of music by Cammeyer, which is free to hear on soundcloud:
https://m.soundcloud.com/robmackillop/sets/alfred-cammeyers-zither-banjo-music-rob-mackillop
...and then I…"
Jake Jeremy Glanville replied to Rob MacKillop's discussion New Temlett Zither Banjo - just arrived!"It's very kind of you to share this banjo with us, Rob. Looks a beaut, and I hope you have many happy hours playing it. I've been an admirer of yours (and zither-banjos) for some years now and it's good to hear what you…"
"Don 't put the original tuners to the garbage , may be , one day , you would like to set it up to the original condition"
Jake Jeremy Glanville replied to Pär Engstrand's discussion W.E Temlett Zither-Banjo"This is a very interesting banjo. It is by W E Temlett, the son of William Temlett an aclaimed English banjo maker, who, in my view, was almost certainly one of the first to use the term 'zither banjo'. Father and son fell out…"
IAN SALTER replied to Pär Engstrand's discussion Historical/original concert programs"Hi Par,
In a recent post of mine, the subject of historical recreation was touched upon, with comments from Jody and Joel. My idea appears to be similar to yours, in that only the music of a certain period in time is played. In my case, I have set…"
"Thanks a bunch, Richard.
I tried tremolo on non adjacent strings for a minute just now. Doesn't seem that impossible actually. I just put the right distance between index and middle finger and went for it. How it's supposed to be done, I…"
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