Jody Stecher
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Jody Stecher replied to Joel Hooks's discussion Mr. Jollyboy
"Perspective (and humor) is my point.   The artist and seller of the toy obviously wish to convey that the boy and his family are well-dressed and fashionably up-to-date. But the reality of the time for many  was ill-fitting hand-me-downs.…"
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Jody Stecher replied to Joel Hooks's discussion Mr. Jollyboy
"The smallest boy looks like he is noticing that Mister Jollyboy isn't entrapped in a suit and tie as he himself is."
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Jody Stecher replied to Joel Hooks's discussion Le Banjo Gottschalk for Banjo
"Gosh!  I never doubted that your were truthfully representing what Grimshaw wrote.  I just couldn't find it in my particular edition. "
yesterday
Jody Stecher replied to Joel Hooks's discussion Le Banjo Gottschalk for Banjo
"I understand all of your post except for the part about a solicitor. "
Wednesday
Jody Stecher replied to Joel Hooks's discussion Le Banjo Gottschalk for Banjo
"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…"
Wednesday
Jody Stecher replied to Joel Hooks's discussion Le Banjo Gottschalk for Banjo
Wednesday
Jody Stecher replied to Joel Hooks's discussion Le Banjo Gottschalk for Banjo
"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…"
Wednesday
Jody Stecher replied to Joel Hooks's discussion Le Banjo Gottschalk for Banjo
"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…"
Monday
Jody Stecher replied to Steve Harrison's discussion Montana Girl (1911)..Percy Wenrich.
"To be clear, I'm talking about Le Banjo, not Montana Girl."
Monday
Jody Stecher replied to Steve Harrison's discussion Montana Girl (1911)..Percy Wenrich.
"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…"
Monday
Jody Stecher commented on Ethan Schwartz's video
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Zarana by Joe Morley

"Three cheers. Or four. That's a lot of notes to remember."
Mar 13
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion How many people actually play this style?
"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…"
Mar 11
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion How many people actually play this style?
"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…"
Mar 10
Jody Stecher replied to Adam Tracksler's discussion Need help picking out my next (first) classic banjo
"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."
Mar 10
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion How to best practice drum slides
"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…"
Mar 10
Jody Stecher replied to Adam Tracksler's discussion Need help picking out my next (first) classic banjo
"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…"
Mar 10

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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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Posted on November 17, 2011 at 4:06 — 5 Comments

Dave, here's the heel

Posted on November 28, 2010 at 22:33

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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