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.
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
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.
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
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
It's an English Walnut fretless banjo tuned two whole steps low. The maker is J Clamp. It usually sounds better. Here's what I posted to this group some years ago when I uploaded the recording. (also you can find 2 photos of the peghead in the Photos section) :
I've just uploaded an mp3 of a catchy little tune called Champion Waltz. It's from Winner's New School for the Banjo (1872). I learned it from the ABF quarterly 5 Stringer where it was transposed to C notation by Eli Kaufman. I'm playing it on a fretless banjo made in the 1890s by J Clamp in Newcaste-on-Tyne. It has a big pot and a short neck so it looks a bit like a skillet. Today it sounds like it has a cold. Calfskin head, heavy nylon strings, low tuning.
What I was getting at Jody and Mark was while I was learning the banjo .mandolin practice was going a drift. so now I have learned to give them both the same attention in my practice times , and not to favour one over the other.
Thanks for the welcome. I decided it's time to grow up, suit up and go classic — if not classy. Do you realize that the Downstate Rebels were 57 years ago? Not exactly the most appropriate name for these times. I hope that you and Kate are well.
Trapdoor2
Apr 7, 2009
Joel Hooks
Mar 14, 2010
Liz McElwain
Aug 19, 2010
Anthony Peabody
Anthony Peabody
Sep 11, 2010
Eric STEFANELLI
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
Dec 22, 2010
Pam Tointon
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
Aug 3, 2011
Neil Angus Goodwin
Oct 18, 2011
allan ideson
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
Mar 5, 2012
skip sail
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
Mar 8, 2012
thereallyniceman
Ian, thereallyniceman
May 14, 2012
Alan Sims
what banjo did you play on champion waltze .nice mellow sound and a nice tune. regards Alan
Jun 18, 2012
Jody Stecher
It's an English Walnut fretless banjo tuned two whole steps low. The maker is J Clamp. It usually sounds better. Here's what I posted to this group some years ago when I uploaded the recording. (also you can find 2 photos of the peghead in the Photos section) :
Jun 18, 2012
Alan Sims
Cheers Jody, 521 ,I suppose it could be a f added 9 as well it sounds a bit jazzy.
Jan 21, 2013
Jody Stecher
F9 is what I thought of first but the absence of eFlat made me think twice. It some kinda F chord anyway.
Jan 21, 2013
Alan Sims
What I was getting at Jody and Mark was while I was learning the banjo .mandolin practice was going a drift. so now I have learned to give them both the same attention in my practice times , and not to favour one over the other.
Apr 16, 2014
Frank Coyne
Hi Jody, Greetings from Dublin, Ireland. Good to linkup. Regards. Frank
Jan 9, 2015
Peter szego
Hi Jody,
Thanks for the welcome. I decided it's time to grow up, suit up and go classic — if not classy. Do you realize that the Downstate Rebels were 57 years ago? Not exactly the most appropriate name for these times. I hope that you and Kate are well.
Peter
Nov 22, 2020
Jody Stecher
When I first heard Dancers Dream I immediately thought it might suit your dancing.
https://classic-banjo.ning.com/page/recordings
and
https://classic-banjo.ning.com/video/abbott-amboyna-zither-banjo-th...
Nov 22, 2020