Comment by marc dalmasso on January 21, 2016 at 11:27

Don 't  look often  at the camera but better the neck ,, Lol 

Comment by Trapdoor2 on January 21, 2016 at 14:22

Wow!

Comment by Shawn McSweeny on January 21, 2016 at 16:33

Très bien fait !

Comment by carrie horgan on January 24, 2016 at 8:58

Brilliant playing!

Comment by thereallyniceman on January 24, 2016 at 11:39

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.

Comment by marc dalmasso on January 24, 2016 at 18:21

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 ....

Comment by thereallyniceman on January 27, 2016 at 11:31

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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