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Polka composée à la fin du XIX éme siècle par Paul Eno spécialement pour le banjo ; elle fut interprétée par les maîtres du banjo classique ; notemment par V...
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Don 't look often at the camera but better the neck ,, Lol
Wow!
Très bien fait !
Brilliant playing!
Very, Very, Very Good.
The only problem I can see is that darned 20 fret banjo ran out of "C"s for the very last note :-)
Thank you Marc.
Merci / thx everybody ; before to choose the banjo on which i will play this tune , i checked if the last note was OK ; yes ; i play it on the vellum ;
it would be interesting to discover why JM , TBJ , EG used to play on these 19 or 20 frets ' banjos ; i have a lil ' idea about that ....
When I took my 20 fret Weaver to the Midlands Banjo Festival last autumn banjoist Ray Bernard had a play and he described it as being "silky smooth". It does feel nice and has a low action, but for me, what makes it "smooth" to play it the fact that the scale length is 26" not the 26 1/2" of most of my other 22 banjos, my Regal for example.
The Weaver does "feel" easier on the fingers but find it particularly noticeable when playing around the 10th position with a fixed chord and the 4th finger playing an extended note on the first string.
I guess what I mean is that for someone with stubby fat fingers, like me, the stretches are easier as they are not as long. In these pictures you can't really see the difference but that almost a centimetre less between the frets 10 -14 makes the 4th finger stretch MUCH easier.
Maybe Alfred Weaver made his banjos finger challenged folk and "Fat fingers Morley" fell into that category too?
Marc, I know that you have long fingers so stretches hold no fear... but I am talking about us mere mortals :-)
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