Tarrant Bailey Jr 5 string banjo videos on the web

[Jody Stecher]

A search for banjo, banjoist, Tarrant Bailey, etc, on the website :

http://beta.britishpathe.com/


will produce about a dozen film clips of British banjo playing including solos by Tarrant Bailey Jr.

[Jody Stecher]

What was the banjo he was selling? Who bought it? Playing a banjo where and when others can hear it as a sales ploy is a time-honored tradition. Apparently Fred Bacon used to do that at his public concerts. Selling one's own recordings at the gig hadn't started up yet. Recording had barely started up. I guess he made more money selling banjos than selling sheet music or souvenir programs. I used to see Ralph Stanley do that at his shows in the 1970s, around the same time TBJ was holding forth at home on Christmas.

[thereallyniceman]

2009 take away 1975 = 34years. My memory does not let me remember the instrument that far back. I think it may have been an S S Stewart or similar as I think that it had a metal hoop with the SS style 4 engravings, but from what I can remember the fingerboard was fairly plain. I do remember that he wanted £200 for it. I don't know who bought it, but I know who didn't.......ME

[Trapdoor2]

>The clips are great. I just love the attack...
>Hey, Marc S... TBj doesn't play like a girlie does he? :)

No, that he doesn't! I suspect he had to reset his bridge a time or two. ;-) If I took to snapping the strings like that, my wife would ask me to return to playing Bluegrass. :-)

[Joel Hooks]

"There's one from 1942 that sounds really familiar, I can't place the tune...yet."

It is "Jacko On Parade." Douglas Back plays it on The Banjo Goes Highbrow.

[Trapdoor2]

Thanks! It was very familiar but with the ipod, I'm not usually looking at the titles as the tunes play...so I don't really get a feel for the names.

[marc dalmasso]

i don ' t exactly understand the word " girlie " ; you means TBj ' s playing is not " de la gnognotte " in French . Yes TBj is one of my favorite

[Jody Stecher]

A girlie banjo player lacks vigor. Non-girlie players may be of either gender. "Gnognotte " is a type of banjo tailpiece.

[thereallyniceman]

Gnognotte a banjo tailpiece...ouch!! I thought that my puns were bad!

[marc dalmasso]

i was sure somebody would play with the words on the tailpiece .Thx Jody
In fact , girlie is from " girl " ?