" I wouldn't attempt Spanish Fandango without raising the 4th string. Playing D at fret 2 of the bass string at the same time as B at fret 9 of the 1st string is a stretch that exceeds the most ambitious of Cammeyer's demands on the…"
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Grimshaw Notation Anomaly
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"That is so. What does that have to do with the content of my post? I did not say that insipid sound comes from an un-raised bass string. I said that this will happen with no bass string at all. I ascribed a particular resonance to…"
"They always played a five string banjo. Always with a bass string.
Take off your 4th string and play something. See if it sounds any good. This is physics, not my personal crazy idea. Same thing applies with a guitar. Play anything on the…"
"About elevated bass: When the 4th string goes up to D it generates different overtones than it did when tuned to C. These overtones, also called "upper partials", color the sound of the notes played on the higher strings. This happens when…"
"Old eyeballs and fuzzy print = weirdness. I just got thru the MS of Morely's "Aviators Parade" and I had to wear my suoer-magnifier headset just to get it keyed in...and then I listened to the playback to find errors 'cause I…"
"Mystery solved. When I looked at the page in my book using a Agfa Lupe magnifier the single sharp sign (intended for d) dispersed into two sharp signs, one above the other. But I have now scanned and enlarged the page and seen that way there is only…"
"I think that you are pointing in the right direction: C natural and D sharp must be what was intended. But that is not what was printed in either version. In the 'vamp' version C looks to me like the sharpened note. I…"
"Exercise 7?
C and D# together would be a barre at the first fret. I don't see where you are getting the C#?"
"On the Fun Factor or its absence in practicing scales: In my 20s I didn't like practicing scales. I thought of it as odious drudgery. And then I met raga musicians and singers from India. They would treat scales, including our garden…"
"Excellent. It's also may be more useful than an exercise because the player (of my generation anyway) will be familiar with the melody and will automatically know when the execution is correct."
"1) The way to use the book is to go to the next topic *after* successfully completing the work of earlier pages. If you can't play page 35 you don't go to page 36 let alone page 59.
2) If you want to write a book I suggest you…"
""Plectrumising" : an excellent word. Even better than "banjolity"."
"When I first got interested in classic banjo music Eli answered my questions in complete detail, first in hand written letters and later in email messages. He would include anything tangential to my questions and things tangential to the…"
" The thumb tremolo under discussion is a means of achieving sostenuto (sustain) on the bass string while the digits play chords on higher strings. This effect is nowhere to be found on that recording."
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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
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