Classic-Banjo

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David Wade's Comments

At 14:54 on January 2, 2009, Carl Anderton said…: Glad you joined up, David.

At 6:34 on April 7, 2009, Eric STEFANELLI said…: Hi David !
Nice to earing from you! I can understand that good peoples are always on good sites, your photos are so good ! I will put some tune on this site next.
Also some good cylinder music, i 'm collecting banjo cylinders music , i have some good old recordings of Ossman & Van Eps, i have also an Edison talking machine, i planning to catch on my camescope and put it on this site too. Carl Anderson had a good idea !!!

At 18:03 on April 8, 2009, Rob Murch said…: Are you still going on 18th? I owe you a pint!!
Rob

At 17:19 on December 28, 2009, Richard Bugdal said…: Thanks for the link to the tutorials. Already downloaded the two recommended.

At 21:15 on May 8, 2010, denver smith said…: Hello David,
thankyou for your friendship offer, I had a wonderful day at Ridgway and, I'm always impressed by the standard of playing ta these events, hopefully I may play one soon, (it,s the red light syndrome) at home it's easy, elsewhere, difficult.
May I add, I liked the sound of the Clifford Essex banjo, it has a good tone.
Hope to see you at Bretby,
Regards, Denver.

At 18:05 on May 19, 2010, Tarry Barriball said…: Hi David

It was through a google search by one of my sons that we came across this site in the first place. We`are trying to trace back through the family tree and he came across it as a result of the Google search. One of my brothers has a CD or something that had mentions of my father on the Cover of the CD. I have not seen the CD or the cover but I have read somewhere that Rob Murch was taught to play (I think by my father but I am not sure). My first name is actually Kenneth but I never use it as my father named me after his great "Banjo Idol" the one and only "Tarrant Bailey Jnr" my second christian name is as you might guess Tarrant but it got shortened to Tarry by my parents unless they were annoyed with me as a child then it was always "Tarrant" or even "Kenneth Tarrant".
Kind regards
Tarry Barriball

At 22:02 on September 10, 2010, Anthony Peabody said…: I really enjoyed Backwell. A bit of an outing for a bass banjo. The jacuzzi in the hotel bedroom was huge, nect to the bed, asnd would have taken about three hours to fill. It WAS the honeymoon suite I know, but Mrs P had her own agenda, which we don't need to go into now.....
Anthony

At 13:30 on February 3, 2011, Mike Moss said…: Hi David,

thanks for the pointers. I've got my eyes on an antique which would be relatively affordable (it's in good enough condition to be playable, but not good enough to be prohibitively expensive!) but I'll have to have some new pegs made for it, as well as a new bridge and probably a new vellum. Otherwise it looks pretty sound.

I'll get a simple, thin two-footed maple bridge for it, as seen in S. S. Stewart's BGM journal. What height bridge should I use? 1/2" or 5/8"?

Thanks for your help,

Mike

At 15:20 on October 13, 2011, Neil Angus Goodwin said…: Hello and thankyou. Ok, my banjos! well I have collected them over 30 years and a couple are unplayable at present, The one I play most is an early Clifford Essex concert grand which has a XX special tailpiece and tension hoop tho' I suspect is original, it is the less common rosewood (can't remember the proper name for this particular darkwood) model and I bought it over the internet from America from Zepp country music, and suspect it was exported there a long time ago, it needs a few minor things putting right but is perfectly playable. I also have an early 20's Paragon no. 266, a Cammeyer zither banjo and an unknown, budget but exceedingly old, fretless, my two unplayable ones are another CE concert grand from the 30's in maple with a warped and twisted neck it will need a new neck, this banjo went around Europe with a soldier during WWII and a Windsor zither with a bowed neck, I have a cheap 60's John Grey for camping etc. But after all that I don't (as yet) play classical style, and mostly use the drop thumb frailing technique.

At 16:27 on October 13, 2011, Neil Angus Goodwin said…: Hello David, thank you for the nice welcome, I replied to your question but I now seem to have deleted it except when I press view as thread, I don't know how to restore it without re posting?

At 18:29 on March 7, 2012, allan ideson said…: thanks for the advise david ..i dont know the best strings yet.the ones i put on were gibson vega.i would rather have a phospher bronze string on the 4th and 3rd ..they didnt have much choice where i bought them ...but there looks to be plenty on ebay....i normally buy my guitar strings 3 sets at a time ...its cheaper.ill try the essex ones next....cheers allan

At 18:56 on March 7, 2012, David Wade said…: whoa no stop Allan this banjo needs nylon strings metal especially steel 3rds destroy the neck on an old 'jo like this. We maybe need to meet up and have chat - steel strings will wreck the 'jo!

At 19:37 on March 7, 2012, allan ideson said…: thanks dave ,,i have slackened the strings ...but it came with steel strings and the tailpiece has the hooks on.thats why i bought steel strings but ill chat to you tomorrow.....allan

At 13:28 on October 15, 2019, nick stephens said…: nice to know the old banjo is alive and well in this country. keep up the good work !

At 13:55 on February 3, 2020, Jim lee said…: Hi David..Thanks for the information..yes if I'm at one of the rallies i will