"This is very kind of you, Joel, and well spoken and perhaps reflective of a nature more patient than my own.
I may or may not agree with the last paragraph. What is it about this particular 20 year period that caused what was recorded to not reflect…"
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St Louis Tickle: New Arrangement for 3 banjos
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Three voice arrangement for The Tantalizer
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"Your narrative is high on emotion and ideology and low on veracity.
I don't know why I reply to your posts because you are apparently impervious to facts and do not reply to anything that contradicts your misinformed views. I…"
"Ah! It's the ditty of ditty bum or the bada of bada bing or the billa of billabong. "
"I have not only heard *of* Lucias Smith, I have heard recordings of his playing. And I've seen his videos on Youtube made at his home in Sardis Mississippi in the deep lowland south. Lomax was not the only one to record Smith, and I am by…"
"Austin: context suggests that by "Mountain Jazz" you mean bluegrass music. That appellation is off-target.
The shift from playing in unison in earlier music to taking sequential solos in bluegrass may have been inspired by jazz…"
"Musicians have always freely stolen or borrowed or appropriated anything and everything that sounded good to them. It works in all directions and always has. This has always been the case and I have seen no evidence that the stealing is literal in…"
"What is Mountain Jazz?"
"Why should the banjo's nature be transcended? The limitations of every last thing on this earth is a major factor in what defines each thing as itself. A carrot is not a pebble, not a shoelace, not a Tuesday afternoon, and not the mayor…"
"Yes....All true....and......
Sometimes it works. Imitation can be handled skillfully. It doesn't have to be a gimmick.
It was said that the vibrato of bottle neck slide guitar in the blues genre began as an imitation of violin. And the vibrato…"
"A corollary: Dick Fegy was an excellent multi-instrumentalist who played well in any genre. I was told he had been a banjo student student of Paul Cadwell. Dick summarized the situation from the opposite end, saying that there were no…"
" Yes. Start slow and not only slower than you think you can play, but at a pace slower than it has ever occurred to you that music could, should, would be played. "
"Daniel, Joel and Ian have pointed to where to start: with Bradbury and/or Grimshaw. I love the oldtime look of the Grimshaw books but have recently gone through the entire Bradbury method page by page (and reported on each page here on this forum)…"
"Try using part of the first joint of the little finger at fret 13. Lay that part of the finger flat against the string as in a barre chord. Done that way it is not such a big challenge. I could never make that stretch using the tip…"
"Thank you (about the old bridges)!
About recording: when recording sometimes a light touch sounds better than playing hard. It depends on the equipment, including the microphone(s) and mic placement, and on the particular instrument and…"
"Congratulations. This is likely to sound very good. I'd be wary of the round-footed bridge though. They tend to topple over. My Windsor Grand Solo has the hollow-footed maple bridge shown on the catalogue page. It makes good tone and so do the…"
"Whoops. One reason I like them is there is a flat shipping rate on domestic orders. It's $4.44 for 2 strings or for 200 strings, Simple. For International orders, they say (here:https://www.stringsbymail.com/shipping.html _)…"
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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
- At 7:32am on May 14, 2012, thereallyniceman gave Jody Stecher a gift…
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