More 6 string, Metzler & Co's Tutor For The Banjo (6 String)

[Joel Hooks]

Here is another 6 string tutor for you!

I found it interesting that there is a number of pieces I know from the "early" America tutors. 

https://archive.org/details/metzler-and-cos-tutor-for-the-banjo-6-s...

[Russ Chandler]

There's a reference in there to a nine string variant with three thumb strings.

Has anyone seen such a beast??

[Jody Stecher]

I have a vague memory of seeing a banjo with double thumb strings but not triple. And it may have been in a photo. Or on a wood-topped "banjo". (Banjola?) 

Russ Chandler said:

There's a reference in there to a nine string variant with three thumb strings.

Has anyone seen such a beast??

[Joel Hooks]

I’ve seen (and held in person) one Stewart with two short strings.  There is a SSS Journal mention of Horace Weston having one..

Both extant Stichter banjos had short pegs on either side of the neck (one had the peg removed by the current owner).

There is an image of Swain Buckley playing a fretted banjo with two short string pegs.

None of this has anything to do with British banjos or tutors.

[Trapdoor2]

This one?

Joel Hooks said:

I’ve seen (and held in person) one Stewart with two short strings.  There is a SSS Journal mention of Horace Weston having one..

[Russ Chandler]

I can see that being useful, but this is the one described in Joel's book and it seems quite mind boggling to me!

Not in general use it says - they're not kidding! 

[Joel Hooks]

At what point does a banjo become a harp?

[Trapdoor2]

When it becomes a tiger!

[Russ Chandler]

That's gotta be AI?

[Trapdoor2]

https://youtu.be/VA7hmw6lBzg?si=4k9VLONDRr1M5tQE

Russ Chandler said:

That's gotta be AI?

[Jody Stecher]

The banjo seems real enough but maybe that feller is AI

Trapdoor2 said:

https://youtu.be/VA7hmw6lBzg?si=4k9VLONDRr1M5tQE

Russ Chandler said:

That's gotta be AI?