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claymaster253 - Posted - 08/06/2008: 19:40:08
What are banjo players called??? is there a formal name? or are we just banjo players because that tends to take a long time to say. I vote that we are banjoists. Any suggestions? 
fitch5string - Posted - 08/06/2008: 19:42:14
Picker ! No, its actually Banjoist .
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Bill Rogers - Posted - 08/06/2008: 19:44:01
I have always liked Hank Schwartz's "banjoista." But I'm inclined to paraphrase Joe Morgan, who, when in his teens, would announce at sandlot baseball games, "I play second base." Similarly,"I play the banjo."
Bill
hsjim - Posted - 08/06/2008: 19:56:19
Socially Challenged
stanleyfan01 - Posted - 08/06/2008: 20:00:37
Banjoist sounds pretty good. I always wondered what a bluegrass fan was called. You call someone thats into Metal a metalhead, well what do you call someone into bluegrass a GRASSHEAD?lol
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sangrej - Posted - 08/06/2008: 21:06:13
And I've always said "banjo-picker". That's what comes to mind if I don't think about it.
Sangrejoven
"The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born he should be issued a banjo!"- Linus Van Pelt
gjjozsa - Posted - 08/06/2008: 21:22:03
At least two dictionaries say it's Banjoist...
Gabe
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banjo
Noun
pl -jos or -joes a stringed musical instrument with a long neck and a circular drumlike body [US pronunciation of earlier bandore]
banjoist n
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
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ban·jo (bnj)
n. pl. ban·jos or ban·joes
A usually fretted stringed instrument having a narrow neck and a hollow circular body with a covering of plastic or stretched skin on which the bridge rests. The modern American banjo typically has four strings and often a short fifth string plucked with the thumb.
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[Akin to Jamaican English banja, fiddle; probably akin to Kimbundu and Tshiluba mbanza, a plucked stringed instrument.]
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banjo·ist n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Edited by - gjjozsa on 08/06/2008 21:26:33
Deaf David - Posted - 08/06/2008: 22:56:07
For males: Banjerinos
For females: Banerinas.
Well, maybe just "five string pickers."
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Don''t nobody like my pickin'' but me; and that''s good enough.
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mike gregory - Posted - 08/06/2008: 22:57:34
A joist is a long piece of lumber that supports a floor or ceiling.
A ban is a prohibition.
A banjoist is a rule against supporting roofs and floors.
The American Heretic Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Dimension copywrong C.2008 by Horton Muffin. Updated 1959. Published by Horton Moosemuffin. All right, Ma, I'm only joking.
dmiller - Posted - 08/07/2008: 00:30:26
The German word *ist*, means is.
Therefore we *is* what we *is*. 
Rick Woods - Posted - 08/07/2008: 04:18:29
Pickers!
Rick
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They ain''t nothin'' that a good banjo pickin can''t cure! My therapy starts with three picks and five strings! YeeHaaw!!
Mike Greylak - Posted - 08/07/2008: 04:35:11
trampolinists?? :No they take of their shoes off -when they jump on trampolines.
Lenwardg - Posted - 08/07/2008: 06:04:50
I like Lester's reference, "One of the banjer playinest fellers in the country".
*Five fingers, five strings. It''s as it should be.*
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Joe Larson - Posted - 08/07/2008: 06:49:22
quote:
Originally posted by claymaster253
What are banjo players called??? ...
Many things by many people.
j
I''d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Just Bill - Posted - 08/07/2008: 06:54:34
I can't bring myself to be an "ist." If I were, I would also be an "airplane-ist."
Me? I'm a banjo picker! 
Bill
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thetexan - Posted - 08/07/2008: 07:34:58
Banjologist
sjyokel - Posted - 08/07/2008: 07:48:02
I like "banjo operator" myself.
Deaf David - Posted - 08/07/2008: 08:17:30
I'm assuming this is about what those who play banjos call themselves. If it were about what others call us, this thread might get vulgar.
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Don''t nobody like my pickin'' but me; and that''s good enough.
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imac50 - Posted - 08/07/2008: 09:02:59
A cello is played by a cellist
A piano is played by a pianist
So a banjo is played by a banjist?
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mike gregory - Posted - 08/07/2008: 11:30:45
quote:
Originally posted by TheBoog
Musician?
Cheers,
Boog
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Not the way I do it!
dschuck - Posted - 08/07/2008: 12:07:46
Hungry?
CoE15NJV - Posted - 08/07/2008: 17:12:30
Banjerst
Steven
mike gregory - Posted - 08/07/2008: 18:07:16
I’m not a real doctor, but I play one on TV.”
Those immortal words were spoken in a 1986 cough syrup commercial by actor Peter Bergman. At the time, he played Doctor Cliff Warner on the popular daytime soap opera “All My Children.”
I'm not a real musician, but I play one on the banjo!
Those immoral words have oft been spoken by Mike Gregory, a banjoist of some sort.
Tom-B - Posted - 08/07/2008: 18:12:16
MIke,
quote:
Originally posted by mike gregory
A joist is a long piece of lumber that supports a floor or ceiling.
Which prompts me to the intellectual Irishman. ...
Paddy Dare, goes to get a job on a buidling site. And the foreman interviews him about his experience.
"Have you worked in sites before?"
"Ahhh, all the time al' the lads know me. Look" and he shouts to a worker on top of the buiding "Hello me, bhoy!" The worker shouts back "Well hello dare"
So the foreman asks him to name the tools ...
"Well sure dat's a pick and dat one's a shovel and isn't that one over there a drill"
"OK" says the foreman "Very good , but how about some technical stuff"?"
"What's the difference between a joist and a girder?"
"Hmmmm.. well.. " says Paddy ...........................
...........Sure, didn't Joyce write Ulysses and Goethe write Faust?Regards,
Tom
If any question why we died / Tell them because our fathers lied - Rudyard Kipling, 1915
Michael Keith - Posted - 08/07/2008: 20:04:19
A 89 year old I know calls a banjo player a dang noise maker. But he says it with a twinkle in his eyes and then sits in the back to watch and listen.
Edited by - Michael Keith on 08/07/2008 20:05:31
ncmedic - Posted - 08/08/2008: 09:40:15
banjo player
some people call us annoying
Life is short, enjoy it, always
Joe Larson - Posted - 08/08/2008: 10:41:55
quote:
Originally posted by dschuck
Hungry?
I have never been hungry since playing the banjo, I've played at so many church dinners, reunions, partys, wedding receptions, political rallyies, pot lucks, etc, etc, etc, I thought our band should carry signs "Will Play For Food"
j
I''d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
revdmike - Posted - 08/08/2008: 14:25:40
I quite like banjolier!
Mike J
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brokenstrings - Posted - 08/08/2008: 19:36:25
Hmm, one of the names for the banjo is "merrywang." What about merrywanger?
Jessy
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banjer5 - Posted - 08/08/2008: 20:07:39
Hummmm, depends on the time of night and location.
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jrmorrow - Posted - 08/09/2008: 05:04:21
Jens Kruger would be called a banjo virtuoso musician extraordinair. I'm a motivated banjo picker.
Play the snot out of it!!!
Joe Jakonczuk - Posted - 08/09/2008: 08:30:20
I refer to myself as a "banjo hacker". Then I let others call me the good and the bad stuff.
RONLD - Posted - 08/09/2008: 15:37:38
I prefer- 5 picker.....basicly !
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ken61 - Posted - 08/10/2008: 06:58:59
unemployed !
ken
learning music to make music
bigbluegrasser - Posted - 08/11/2008: 09:29:30
The way I play would best be described as a Banjoker.
Ray
