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Jody Stecher
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Historical question about banjo strings
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher Sep 7.
St Louis Tickle: New Arrangement for 3 banjos
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher Aug 29.
Three voice arrangement for The Tantalizer
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jody Stecher Aug 9.
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""Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag" is usually attributed to two brothers, George Henry Powell (words) and Felix Powell (music). If Cunninghame was the actual composer, it would seem odd that he chose two names as a…"
"I have a Vega to-be-phone banjo... (Tu-ba-phone). Is that what you mean?"
"Last year I had what I thought was a case of antiphony but when I opened it there was a saxophony inside it. Of course I've always been anti-phony myself, preferring honest folk."
"This is monumental. It's not just pushing buttons on a copy machine. It takes work and dedication. Than you."
"Good idea, Ethan. Let's put an end to this nonsense. I'm done as well. No point in talking to a wall. "
"Byron, I *think* Austin means treating a single banjo as an orchestra, bringing out different tone colors and doing this at once by a single player.
This was not the norm in during the "Golden Age" of recording of classic…"
"You're still banging on about Appalachia? "
"There may be light at the end of this tunnel. Yes, antiphony is a broad category. Yes, antiphony in classical music has a different feel from anything in African-American music. No, you don't get to decide on the meaning of words.…"
"If call-and response is largely improvised how do you account for the music in the links I posted being memorized songs? Is everyone but you mistaken in calling this call-and-response? And if the instrumentals between the verses in old…"
"True. Veracious. On-the-money, Correct. Aligned with reality."
"There are lots of African elements in both oldtime and bluegrass music but call and response (as the term is actually used by everyone but you) is not a prominent one of them. Call and response is an exchange of short phrases. It is not…"
" The Grove dictionary is descriptive not prescriptive. It explains terms as they are used by those who use them.
Pretending that parts of a tune that are not sung is call and response is eccentric. Claiming that instrumental…"
"I don't know why I bother responding to you because it's like talking to a deaf robot. You are not fooling anyone with your fanciful fabrications. You've just been told by Ethan, someone who knows through experience, that the…"
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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 (24 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 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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