Under The Double Eagle..1893..J.F.Wagner. - Classic-Banjo2024-03-29T12:29:25Zhttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/forum/topics/under-the-double-eagle-1893-j-f-wagner?commentId=2667446%3AComment%3A184568&xg_source=activity&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLOL. I once brought 4 banjos…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-04-25:2667446:Comment:1847702021-04-25T16:27:54.460ZTrapdoor2https://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/Trapdoor2
<p>LOL. I once brought 4 banjos to a jam. All in different tunings so I would not have to spend so much time finding the correct tuning once the tune was called. It was a local OT jam and they had no qualms about bouncing around the keys. The home owner had fitted her porch out with instrument hangers, so I commandeered 3 near my chair and had a good time.</p>
<p>Most other jams I attend try to stick with one key for a period, then move to another. I have two OT banjos now and with a capo on…</p>
<p>LOL. I once brought 4 banjos to a jam. All in different tunings so I would not have to spend so much time finding the correct tuning once the tune was called. It was a local OT jam and they had no qualms about bouncing around the keys. The home owner had fitted her porch out with instrument hangers, so I commandeered 3 near my chair and had a good time.</p>
<p>Most other jams I attend try to stick with one key for a period, then move to another. I have two OT banjos now and with a capo on each, I can cover most of the common keys.</p>
<p>For Classic, I find re-tuning the bass easy...only one tuner to mess with. With OT, it can be all five up and down all night.<br/> <br/> <cite>nick stephens said:</cite></p>
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</blockquote> I watched Clarke Buehling in…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-04-24:2667446:Comment:1846672021-04-24T14:55:10.928Znick stephenshttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/nickstephens
<p>I watched Clarke Buehling in a London pub one night and his bass string was up and down all night, he even kept a tuner clipped to his banjo pot for quick accurate retuning, I too am in the camp of "I am not doing that !" Illogical maybe but I would rather go to the bother of carrying a second banjo everywhere with me as in fact I do !<br></br> <br></br> <cite>Trapdoor2 said:…</cite></p>
<p>I watched Clarke Buehling in a London pub one night and his bass string was up and down all night, he even kept a tuner clipped to his banjo pot for quick accurate retuning, I too am in the camp of "I am not doing that !" Illogical maybe but I would rather go to the bother of carrying a second banjo everywhere with me as in fact I do !<br/> <br/> <cite>Trapdoor2 said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="https://classic-banjo.ning.com/forum/topics/under-the-double-eagle-1893-j-f-wagner#2667446Comment184572"><div><div class="xg_user_generated">My play book is half C and half D. I'll play thru the C tunes one afternoon and the D tunes the next. Since I come from a BG background, D is just a smidge more comfortable...even though I played Scruggs' C tunes from the beginning.</div>
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</blockquote> My play book is half C and ha…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-04-16:2667446:Comment:1845722021-04-16T19:21:19.051ZTrapdoor2https://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/Trapdoor2
My play book is half C and half D. I'll play thru the C tunes one afternoon and the D tunes the next. Since I come from a BG background, D is just a smidge more comfortable...even though I played Scruggs' C tunes from the beginning.
My play book is half C and half D. I'll play thru the C tunes one afternoon and the D tunes the next. Since I come from a BG background, D is just a smidge more comfortable...even though I played Scruggs' C tunes from the beginning. Ah, yeah. I played Jacobs' a…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-04-16:2667446:Comment:1846662021-04-16T12:35:12.172ZJoel Hookshttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/deuceswilde
<p>Ah, yeah. I played Jacobs' as that is the one Clarke Buehling uses. In fact, I was not playing the bass solo correctly and he showed me what I had missed in the notation.</p>
<p>I have to admit that I don't play it often because for some reason I don't like raising the 4th. There is no real logic why, I just don't.</p>
<p>Ah, yeah. I played Jacobs' as that is the one Clarke Buehling uses. In fact, I was not playing the bass solo correctly and he showed me what I had missed in the notation.</p>
<p>I have to admit that I don't play it often because for some reason I don't like raising the 4th. There is no real logic why, I just don't.</p> Sorry, I misspoke. I tabbed o…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-04-15:2667446:Comment:1845682021-04-15T18:10:36.380ZTrapdoor2https://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/Trapdoor2
<p>Sorry, I misspoke. I tabbed out the Jacobs version back then. I don't know why I thought it was Grimshaw...<br/> <br/> <cite>Joel Hooks said:</cite></p>
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<p>I like the way Walter Jacobs handles the bass solo.</p>
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<p>Sorry, I misspoke. I tabbed out the Jacobs version back then. I don't know why I thought it was Grimshaw...<br/> <br/> <cite>Joel Hooks said:</cite></p>
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<p>I like the way Walter Jacobs handles the bass solo.</p>
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</blockquote> I don't think I have seen Gri…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-04-14:2667446:Comment:1847582021-04-14T21:11:14.332ZJoel Hookshttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/deuceswilde
<p>I don't think I have seen Grimshaw's arrangement. </p>
<p>I like the way Walter Jacobs handles the bass solo.</p>
<p>I don't think I have seen Grimshaw's arrangement. </p>
<p>I like the way Walter Jacobs handles the bass solo.</p> I tabbed out the Grimshaw ver…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-04-14:2667446:Comment:1846622021-04-14T16:04:42.247ZTrapdoor2https://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/Trapdoor2
<p>I tabbed out the Grimshaw version in 2016. Pretty close to the Ellis and the Jacobs. Might be fun to do a comparison study.</p>
<p>I tabbed out the Grimshaw version in 2016. Pretty close to the Ellis and the Jacobs. Might be fun to do a comparison study.</p> Nice!
This is another of thos…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-04-13:2667446:Comment:1846572021-04-13T13:46:21.517ZJoel Hookshttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/deuceswilde
<p>Nice!</p>
<p>This is another of those that has been arranged for banjo many times.</p>
<p>Here is one from E. H. Frey, this is A notation so the pitch would sound in F.</p>
<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/CarlFischerTutor/page/n111/mode/2up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/CarlFischerTutor/page/n111/mode/2up</a></p>
<p>Here is Walter Jacobs in A notation, sounds in G.…</p>
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<p>Nice!</p>
<p>This is another of those that has been arranged for banjo many times.</p>
<p>Here is one from E. H. Frey, this is A notation so the pitch would sound in F.</p>
<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/CarlFischerTutor/page/n111/mode/2up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/CarlFischerTutor/page/n111/mode/2up</a></p>
<p>Here is Walter Jacobs in A notation, sounds in G.</p>
<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/JacobsFolioNo1/page/n17/mode/2up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/JacobsFolioNo1/page/n17/mode/2up</a></p>
<p>When I fumble through it I play the later Walter Jacobs arrangement that was published in the Jacobs Banjo Collection in C notation. It is similar to the A notation version but cleaned up a bit.</p>
<p>Of course, bluegrass and post WW2 folk got hold of it and dropped the intro and A part. It is one of the few pieces that they modulate without stopping to use capo-clamps, tuner effects, or change tuning. </p>