"The one on Banjo Hangout ? $800 is a very good price for the buyer. These days I am shedding instruments rather than acquiring them or I'd be tempted myself. This model also sounds very good with light gauge steel strings.
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"Here's a video of my old Regal. It got sent to Tennessee. Maybe it's still there. To my 2024 ears it sounds like it might have benefited from lighter strings.
https://classic-banjo.ning.com/video/st-louis-tickle-4"
"I sure like the popping sound of your Special XX. Mine does the same thing."
"The good ones are good. The great ones are great. The fair ones are fair. In general the lower models are of lower quality. The middle models have specific characteristics. The highest models have more bells and whistles but are not…"
"OH! Austin, did you mean how does one know how fast to play the Frolic Jig? I thought you meant the Grimshaw exercise.
My answer to that question : one knows from the title, genre, and species, so to speak. "Jig" in this…"
"I know from the printed tempo marking."
"Yes, at 88 bpm which is slow. At that metronome setting the Frolic Jig would be viable if a bit sedate.. The chord in the Grimshaw exercise would occur at the same time as the C in the first half of the measure in question in the Frolic Jig.…"
"Ah! That makes sense. I had no idea."
"What is a "HIPP" approach? Internet says it means Health Insurance Premium Payment. I'm sure you have something else in mind."
"For other-than-ragtime, check out, for instance Emil Grimshaw's Kentucky Memories or Plantation Episode. Or Colonial March by Parke Hunter (F and B flat). And most of the vast C major repertoire of all sub-genres moves into F in the…"
"There are pieces in F, Bb, Eb and even Ab. Many of these are within the ragtime repertoire. The library here is full of such pieces. For instance check out the "Ragtime Oriole" (4 flats/ A flat major) or "Grace and…"
"Fret 5 and 9 is the first way I tried. The banjo I tried it on has a 27 inch scale so the stretch was doable but a bit uncomfortable."
"I tried it three ways. The most reliable and best sounding way for me is F on fret 5 of the bass with the left 4th finger (pinky), A on fret 2 of string 3 with the left index, C on fret 5 of string 3 with the left pinky, and F on fret 3 os…"
"Yes, Eric was also a practitioner of Japanese calligraphy. He made lutes as well as banjos, and earlier in his life he built pipe organs. In making banjo necks he made his own varnish using fruit alcohol from trees growing right outside…"
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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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