I'm buying a banjo

[hrodbert696]

I'm going to take it on faith that you know it is a three-stringed instrument.

I am aware, yes. If Jaco only needed four, then surely playing with only three would make me superior to Jaco, no?

 

[Michedelic]

I'm going to take it on faith that you know it is a three-stringed instrument.

Sometimes, yes...

sometimes it can be four string(if you have a good luthier, I suppose)...

 

[Watchootognbout]

Non traditional usage of a Banjo.

 

[pigpen ridding]

 

[Joedog]

Geez Jimmy......now all you need is a front porch, a rocking chair, and an old hound dog! Actually that sounds kind of nice!

 

[mongo2]

Speaking of accordions, in my squeeze box days my sainted mother always called me in to watch Myron Floren when he was featured on The Lawrence Welk Show. Things like this...



The guy was amazing but I was much happier when I started playing bass.

 

[GretschWretch]

I am aware, yes. If Jaco only needed four, then surely playing with only three would make me superior to Jaco, no?

But not superior to Mark Sandman.

 

[2112]

View attachment 4275996His is a tenor banjo, but I'll be getting a 6-string.

Grampa Jones only needed 5 strings. Just sayin.

Don't forget, when traveling in some states, they require you to put your banjo in the trunk with the strings stored separately in the glove box.

 

[GretschWretch]

Sometimes, yes...

sometimes it can be four string(if you have a good luthier, I suppose)...

No fair; these are custom made slab balalaikas (what must they weigh?!?!?). Somewhere at home I should have a photograph taken at the 1973 Houston Renfair. That player has an acoustic four-stringer. Only one I've ever seen.

 

[Playbyear]

So my plan is getting one of these Dean 6-string banjos...

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...and the plans for world domination of retirement villages can commence.

Scruggs only needed five strings

 

[Jason Schulhz]

Jimmy, I know you're a bassist at heart and that will never change. Paul McCartney played piano and guitar, Geddy played keys, and John Paul Jones played 22 instruments.

Just don't go all "Deliverance" on us with dueling banjos....

 

[TerribleTim68]

 

[chadds]

It's time:
"What's perfect pitch?"

 

[frankie5string]

That's not a Banjo... That's a Banjitar...

I know someone who has one, he really fancied himself a banjo player... He's actually not a very good guitar player so he just barely makes due with the Banjitar.

 

[Matty Koff]

Might as well get started on that 5 finger pickin' while you wait on the thing to arrive Jimmy.

Ah the journey. From handicapped hands to days, weeks, months of holding your hand stretched in front of your face and telling it "@!%# YOU, YOU WORTHLESS APPENDAGE" to eventually performing halfway decent 8th note triplets and eventually 16th notes.

 

[bmusic]

Often considered it, never pulled the trigger.

 

[Michedelic]

It's time:
"What's perfect pitch?"

A few days ago I saw a youtube of Jim Stafford playing a guitjo.

I played accordion in the 60's so I got to hear jokes like this...

What's the definition of perfect pitch? When you throw a banjo in the dumpster and it lands on an accordion.

You're a little late to class...

 

[alack]

 

[EatS1stBassist]

All right, just kidding, just kidding... have fun with it! I've been wanting a contrabass balalaika forever myself, but they're impossible to find.

Lmao!

 

[Jaycat]

Now I have an earworm of "I'm Buying A Banjo," to the tune of "You're Having My Baby."