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Old Cammeyer banjo
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Joel Hooks Oct 31.
On "Steam Up"
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Dill Pickles: Errors in Clifford Essex score?
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"Thanks Jody for your reply. Unfortunately I am completely clueless when it comes to today's tech. If I've erred again, I'm sorry.
Best Wishes,
Jake."
"I was not kidding. I didn't know what AD meant.
Jake please do not use the comment function in replying to something written in a conversation. Please add your comment to the thread. It's too confusing and people have to click in…"
"Jody, you're kidding me, aren't you? 'AD' is how Cammeyer was usually referred to by those around him at the time, and stands for 'Alfred Davies' (often misspelled as 'Davis'). He was still alive…"
"I would say that banjo is a hybrid; it is neither a regular banjo or a zither-banjo. It may even be that the neck was once attached to an open back pot and the zither-banjo pot once had a standard zb neck. The tailpiece seems to be intended for soft…"
"Who or what is "AD"?"
"Yes. And part of Camm's definition of a zither-banjo is the string material. Three wire, one gut, one wound string. This is by design in order to produce 3 distinct voices on one instrument. He's vague about the 4th string.…"
"In general? On Patrol Comique perhaps Ossman has the edge. Or maybe not. In their entire recorded output (not that I've heard it all) Van Eps has the technical edge. But then on his records it's easier to tell what he's playing…"
"I agree that the F sounds better. The piano right hand notation makes it clear that E is intended. "
" Thanks. I played through the tune slowly. I am in doubt about a C natural in the third part. It's the last note of the 2nd measure of the bottom line on page 2. It doesn't quite make sense to me. Anyway I don't think…"
"Someone might respond if you would show us the notation."
"Thanks, Marc. That explains it. "
"The first part sounds like the composer Howard Whitney took The Campbells Are Coming, held on to the structure, shook it until all the notes fell out, and replaced it with other notes (pitches).
What is the meaning of "A Jersey…"
"I have found that with banjos, the size of the frets doesn't matter too much as there usually is not much tension on the strings. For mandolins heavier frets make playing easier. The metal fret does most of the work. The one exception is when…"
Troise and his Banjoliers
"If the photo at the top of this thread is of the Banjoliers why are there no banjos to be seen? Perhaps this is a photo of the Mandoliers. Or were the two the same band, playing either mandolins or banjos according circumstance?"
"Retrofret is drawing a lot of very specific conclusions about an unmarked banjo. "
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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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Farland Metal banjo head on ebay
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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
- At 7:32am on May 14, 2012, thereallyniceman gave Jody Stecher a gift…
- Jody, Bill and Scott get out the glasses and have a celebratory drink on me! Ian, thereallyniceman
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