"I have no system . I have only a few originals of individual pieces These I keep in a manila folder. I do have some original books. These are on a book shelf. I do use these to read from. When learning a single banjo solo, not from a book,…"
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Jody Stecher
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A different kind of banjo contest/ Samurai style?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher Mar 7.
UK Banjo Alert
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher Feb 27.
What everyone needs for Christmas?
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"I am so saddened. David was just as you say, Ian— a leading light. We had been email correspondents for a decade or so when at last I met him and Carolyn at a banjo rally in Backwell that I was able to attend, as I was working in the UK at the…"
"I learned to play a version on guitar when I was about 14 years old. After hearing Charlie Waller of the Country Gentlemen play it I just had to try it. But I had a small guitar and couldn't get my strings to sound like they were attached to an…"
"Whoa! One bird with 2 crowned heads and the bird looks more like a chicken than an eagle. And the heads look a bit more like the head of a weasel than the head of a bird. Under The Double Chicken? Under The Double Weasel?…"
Carrie's Gone to Kansas City (Blind Boone)
"I see! So maybe the piano roll of Blind Boone would sound not nearly so dreadful if the operator left the controls alone. Thanks to both of you."
Carrie's Gone to Kansas City (Blind Boone)
"Can someone explain to me what the pair of hands are doing in the piano roll video? Just fidgeting? Or what?"
Carrie's Gone to Kansas City (Blind Boone)
"Blind Boone was a banjo player as well as a pianist and composer. Here's a screen capture from a Youtube feature on Blind Boone. The photo is from an archive in Columbia Missouri. And sure enough there's the banjo, not far from the piano."
"One potential point of confusion would be the "banjo" is a near homonym for "benjo" which means "toilet" in Japanese. Yes I can see it now. The samurai on the ground is about to swing the toilet he is grabbing by…"
"I was just talking on the phone with my boyfriend's 93 year old Japanese mother, and decided to try and describe the picture....not sure i was successful!"
"In 1969 I played a gig in which I played the banjo wearing mittens. That show also involved pie throwing. And one tune was played by a trio of bugle, washboard, and "Shower Horn", which is a garden hose with a trumpet…"
"I'll bet those banjos are hard to pull out of the scabbard quickly! Time to go sharpen up the old Stewart!
I finally found (after many years of searching) a company who makes tabi socks that fit me. My mother kept my first pair (which were…"
"Doggone it. My computer decided to *improve* "Franken-banjo" by changing it to "Franked-banjo" and NOW it wants to change it to "Franzen-banjo". "
A different kind of banjo contest/ Samurai style?
I received this in an email from a friend this evening. See More
"With its11.5 inch pot this lovely looking banjo is likely to sound great. I had a Barnes & Mullins like that and it was a great banjo. Now a student of mine has it. I think the price is not high. If I was still in a life phase of…"
"But what's going on at the back of the peghead? I'm wondering now if this is a bizarre Franked-banjo. At any rate it is a mystery to me."
UK Banjo Alert
There is a Cammeyer Patent model zither-banjo in Yorkshire, up for auction on eBay.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373471537165?ul_noapp=trueIt appears to be in good condition, though I haven't studied the photos carefully. It lacks the fancy resonator and that is just as well because by now these have all become a mess on every specimen I've seen. And it has heel carving!See More
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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
Comment Wall (19 comments)
- 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 1:08 on April 12, 2009,
Paul Hostetter said…
- Then I shall cheer your posts.
- 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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