"I see! So your tab is a map of a likely way to play the piece rather than a transcription of a recording. Have I got that right?"
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Whiskey Before Breakfast:score, tab, sound file
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher Jul 5.
New strings/ New transcription
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Trapdoor2 Jun 22.
Repaired scores for Old Bog Hole
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" Is there some place that Ossman's recording may be heard? "
The Sue polka (played straight)
"I am dubious about your claim(s). Perhaps you have a genuine insight into Farland's musicality. It would further your cause if you presented your ideas in compete sentences and offered corroborating evidence that support your clearly…"
"Here it is. I think it's probably the same one you have. One page is all I have."
"Apologies for the bizarre typos below. I meant to ask if the 5 pieces I mentioned in earlier posts in this thread are in the Phil Spires collection which you are about to receive. If they are I will not need to spend the time it takes to upload them…"
"Cowboy Capers and Ah Sin are oddly similar in that they each have a surfeit of cuteness which I think is meant to be atmospheric. I hear the "ChingChongChinaman" thing in Ah Sin. I'm thinking the rhythms of Cowboy Capers are…"
"I'm curious about the kinda weird ones. Can you direct me to one or two of them?"
"Russ: As I was leaving Backwell rally in 2010 I was handed a DVD containing a huge amount of sheet music. Handwritten on the face was "Fingerstyle banjo sheet music (Public). August 2010". Is this the Phil Spires Collection?…"
"OK, I'll see if I can post them here in the next day or two. "
"In that case none of the scores I have are the ones you are looking for. Sorry. I like the idea of your project and was looking forward to contributing a few pages but I don't have what you're looking for."
"OK, so I guess the version I have is not from BMG. Looking through a random issue of BMG I don't see anything on a sheet music page that announces itself as being a magazine page. The notation pages, unlike the word pages are not…"
"I've got 4 more, all published by CE, most with 2nd banjo part and piano part. That's a lot of pages to upload here. Would it make more sense to email them to you or to Ian (Really Nice Man) to put in library? I have
Tyro…"
"I've got Ossman's "The Favorite", published by CE but the sheet doesn't explicitly say it's from BMG. I also have 2nd banjo part and piano part. This suggests to me that it may have been published as a set, apart from…"
"Thank you for doing this job, Ian. It's a nuisance, I know. "
"Yes the imagined increase is an example of what I meant by music in the realm of ideation as opposed to the the realm of the physical world. Classical composers did this too I am told."
"In the 4th measure you have retained Bickford's crescendo "hairpin" marking. How does one increase the volume of a single stroke? You strike the chord and on the banjo it automatically diminishes in volume soon after. One…"
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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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