Jody Stecher
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What are people practicing?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Ethan Schwartz Sep 21.

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Jody Stecher commented on Russ Chandler's video
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Gordon Dando's Classic Banjo

"On page 14 of the Chris Sands book on Tarrant Bailey JR is a section describing the mishap.  TBJ's fingertip was bruised from playing hard enough to be heard over a noisy band who were overpowering the banjo rather than accompanying. The…"
Monday
Jody Stecher commented on Russ Chandler's video
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Gordon Dando's Classic Banjo

"I noticed that the older banjo players did not have a fixed position for the right hand but rather moved it freely between the bridge and the area where the pot meets the neck according to the desired sound and feel.  The young Tarrant Bailey…"
Monday
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion How much interpretation is too much?
"The metronome does not lie. That's the good part. If we are speeding up or slowing down we will not be in synch with the click of the metronome.  It makes aware of our deficiencies in rhythmic steadiness. It's a good tool to help us…"
Nov 6
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion How much interpretation is too much?
"What Joel said. All points, all well said. Especially the last sentence: "Build the foundation". It applies to all instruments, all kinds of music, all arts, all sciences, all endeavors.  With no foundation the house collapses. …"
Nov 5
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion How much interpretation is too much?
"Why not experiment?   Because then you might not ever be able to play in time. First things first. I can't prove it but I'm pretty sure that Greenop did not have in mind skeletons doing "Modern Interpretive Dance".…"
Nov 5
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion I'm sorry
"FUNE ID where my banjo is? TKL?  OICURMT !"
Oct 29
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion I'm sorry
"OH!   I knew you meant something relevant to the rest of your post but I could not work it out. "
Oct 28
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion I'm sorry
"What is "FMB"?  The internet says Forest Management Bureau, Flavored Malt Beverage, and some Tik Tok meaning that is incomprehensible to me. I think you mean something else. "
Oct 28
Jody Stecher replied to Trapdoor2's discussion Wrench for CE Profesional?
"All my banjo wrenches  are hexagonal or round.  I found some square ones on the internet here: https://www.billcampbanjos.com/PROD16.htm 7/32" is the size."
Oct 26
Jody Stecher replied to Trapdoor2's discussion At Sunset, Grimshaw...
"Certainly better for *me* !"
Oct 25
Jody Stecher replied to Trapdoor2's discussion At Sunset, Grimshaw...
"False alarm/false hope. I can't even tell all of what is meant in the very first measure."
Oct 24
Jody Stecher replied to Trapdoor2's discussion At Sunset, Grimshaw...
"I can significantly enlarge the notation on my computer but it I can't seem to be able to post the enlargement here. If you tell me which measures, accidentals, notes and fingerings are not readable I'll have a look and see if I can…"
Oct 24
Jody Stecher replied to Trapdoor2's discussion At Sunset, Grimshaw...
"Is this better?"
Oct 24
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion What happened to all of the Emile Grimshaw scores?
"The Clifford Essex site (which is a dot com, not a dot net as given in the music library here) does have sheet music for The Banshee. It's a plectrum banjo version but it is not…"
Oct 15
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion What happened to all of the Emile Grimshaw scores?
"A search for "Banshee" turns up two entries. One is via Clifford Essex and the other is right here."
Oct 15
Jody Stecher replied to Austin 's discussion What happened to all of the Emile Grimshaw scores?
"The sheet music for nearly 100 Grimshaw banjo solos are right here in the Music Library. Including the Banshee.  "
Oct 15

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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

At 7:32am on May 14, 2012, thereallyniceman gave Jody Stecher a gift

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