I'm buying a banjo

[brianrost]

Man, that Ric bass has light strings on it.

What strings did you put on yours?

 

[Son of Wobble]

I told this joke to the trombone player in my band a few years ago:

Q: What's the best way to tune a banjo?
A: Wire cutters

I assumed that I would be safe telling this to a trombone player, but he looked kind of bummed out and told me that he had just started taking BANJO LESSONS.

 

[lowendrv]

I think the time is right . Everyone on TB has been waiting for a Jimmy and Winny Puhh collaboration .

 

[Matty Koff]

I told this joke to the trombone player in my band a few years ago:

Q: What's the best way to tune a banjo?
A: Wire cutters

I assumed that I would be safe telling this to a trombone player, but he looked kind of bummed out and told me that he had just started taking BANJO LESSONS.

Hello, Darkness, my old friend.

 

[bobyoung53]

What strings did you put on yours?

Not banjo strings!

 

[bobyoung53]

As per my post#27, The Hollies' "Stop Stop Stop", then...
Pete also strums the banjo on The Who's "Call Me Lightning", as well as a Quadrophenia track.
The entire striped shirt folk music era, but in particular...


I mentioned the Byrds, it's featured on the legendary Sweethearts of the Rodeo album, especially on this Woody Guthrie classic...

Last but not least...

The MTA was a BIG hit in Boston. But 4 great tunes.

 

[JimmyM]

I used a set of electric guitar strings on the Rogue 6-string I fixed up for a friend. They worked just fine.

 

[bobyoung53]

An early hit instrumental featuring Banjo:

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Great song, you know you're getting old when you can remember this when it was a hit.

 

[Son of Wobble]

Not banjo strings!

I'm guessing you use the La Bella Deep Talking Flats Jamerson set?

 

[bobyoung53]

I'm guessing you use the La Bella Deep Talking Flat Jamerson set?

Of course, but it turned into a bow and arrow bantar, interesting sound though.

 

[HardNHeavy]

didn't know these things existed......someones been on lockdown waayy too long!......hehe. If ya can play it and make sing, more power to you!!

 

[Philip McAdam]

Okay, but Steve Martin is a comic genius!

 

[Son of Wobble]

Okay, but Steve Martin is a comic genius!

Interesting how he effectively abandoned standup after his fourth album. Those records were hugely impactful in the late 70s.

 

[MikePlaysBass]

I'll let my bluegrass purist colors show here by saying that the thing with 6 strings and a banjo resonator IS NOT a banjo. It's a guitar, and you won't really be able to play anything that sounds like actual banjo music on it. If you wanna play the banjo but not learn Scruggs rolls, maybe get an open-back banjo and learn to play clawhammer? It's easier than three-finger, and there's a whole world of great music to explore.

Ditto. If you don't have the top drone string it's not really a banjo. The resonating body will have a fast attack sound similar to a banjo, but it's still a guitar made to sound similar to one. It's like the Sitar guitars that had sympathetic vibrating strings. They sounded more like a sitar than a guitar, but nothing like the real thing.

 

[JimmyM]

Ditto. If you don't have the top drone string it's not really a banjo. The resonating body will have a fast attack sound similar to a banjo, but it's still a guitar made to sound similar to one. It's like the Sitar guitars that had sympathetic vibrating strings. They sounded more like a sitar than a guitar, but nothing like the real thing.

Not sure when that "rule" got declared. Do you have documented evidence of this ruling? I ask because I sure see a lot of instruments called banjos that existed well before the first 5 string banjo.

 

[LowActionHero]

I already did, a 5 string.
Trickier than I remembered from when I messed around with a relative's when I was a kid.

 

[frankie5string]

That'll be me, except I'll never fancy myself a banjo player. I will, however, call it a banjo and use it on occasion. Purism isn't in my vocab.

You should round out the collection with an electric Sitar (or Sita'tar)...

 

[Topkat13]

Cool.

 

[MustangWally]

My personal opinion is that any person who produces a banjo with the clear intention of playing same should be shot dead before they can make a sound on the damn thing. Call this a public service.

 

[rufus.K]

Im way more inclined to the 4string than 5 string banjo.
Ill take a Veena over a Sitar any day also.