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"The smallest boy looks like he is noticing that Mister Jollyboy isn't entrapped in a suit and tie as he himself is."
"Gosh! I never doubted that your were truthfully representing what Grimshaw wrote. I just couldn't find it in my particular edition. "
"I understand all of your post except for the part about a solicitor. "
"Thank you, Richard. No need to go the trouble unless you are curious yourself. My copy has an orange cover. It is the 6th edition. It contains lots of exercises but no solos by name except for within section 5 which is on Plectrum…"
"I have played music on the banjo in E major all my life.
I'm wondering what Grimshaw's problem was with this key. I browsed through my dog-eared old copy of The Banjo and How To Play It. I noticed that there were no exercises in E major…"
"And this is what I posted to that earlier thread:
The composer called it a fantaisie grotesque. It's just a bunch of ripples set in the apparantly bizarre key of six sharps. That's F sharp. When tried on a piano it quickly becomes…"
"To be clear, I'm talking about Le Banjo, not Montana Girl."
"The composer called it a fantaisie grotesque. It's just a bunch of ripples set in the apparantly bizarre key of six sharps. That's F sharp. When tried on a piano it quickly becomes apparent that the mostly pentatonic score can be…"
"Strings and frets are strings and frets. Banjos have em, just like electric guitars. Left hand tapping can be done on any stringed instrument. I still maintain that the banjo has limits but I don't see how this repertoire and its techniques…"
"Can't just play arrangements: I guess that's why Segovia was such a flop and never made a career.
The banjo has no limitations: Every instrument has limitations. Every individual thing in this world has limitations. If that were not…"
"Some years ago I bought a banjo from Bernunzio that was damaged. And other damage had been badly repaired and covered with shoe polish. I got a refund but i had to pay the shipping cost to return it. Never again. Buyer beware."
"What Joel has written here is precisely exactly so. Much of classic banjo technique is derived from Spanish guitar. The world of Flamenco guitar is a subculture that happens to be in Spain.. The several things that are meant by "Spanish…"
"For my taste the Rettberg and Lange is the most appealing. Two of the features I particularly like will not appeal to everyone. The scale (vibrating length from nut to bridge) is 28.5 inches. That is long. If you have small hands you…"
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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…
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