beezaboy - Posted - 04/29/2009:  11:03:00

A C scale 5 string with a wooden head. First time for me. How about you?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...170326615593

Here's a new one:
http://tmeadbanjos.com/banjos.htm

Beezaboy

Brooklynbanjoboy - Posted - 04/29/2009:  11:08:42

Check out this one:

http://www.bernunzio.com/item.php?sku=0812663

Lew

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jbalch - Posted - 04/29/2009:  11:22:33

Those were sold as travel banjos a few years back. I assume they are lighweight, quiet and small.

I had a very unusual Bart Reiter C-scale banjo for a while. It had a regular openback rim...with a very short neck a lot like the Epiphpne. I used it for travel. It was loads of fun.


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gottasmilealot - Posted - 04/29/2009:  12:13:08

The Saga Pony Banjo is a C scale banjo also.

Keith

rcmoore - Posted - 04/29/2009:  18:33:05

Beezaboy, I have two of those Epiphone short scale wooden top banjos. I don't know who actually built them; but I suspect they are Asian. The quality is quite good despite the peghead tuners being guitar type and the 5th string tuner being friction. The sound is somewhat quite. It sounds ok in a small room with no competition from louder instruments. They are easy to play and hold tune very well.
Bob Moore

beezaboy - Posted - 04/29/2009:  18:41:17

RC - Thanks for the information. I had never seen one of these before and at first thought the seller had received the banjo in pieces and placed the resonator on top of the rim. Playing Scruggs Style one would think your anchor fingers would slip about on the varnished wood head but I guess not.
Best,

Beezaboy

RMH - Posted - 04/29/2009:  18:45:58

I put together a Stew Mac C scale openback "Banjeaurine" kit way back in the 70's or early 80's. My son learned on it. I still have it. Never seen a wooden top one though.

Ron

Edited by - RMH on 04/29/2009 18:47:19

Helix - Posted - 04/30/2009:  07:06:40

Here's an interesting project. A Gold Tone Cripple Creek Mini neck, but with a 10" 20-bracket Alder rim 3" deep, twin rim rods. This banjo can accept a full size neck later, cruiser's got built-in 10" guns.

I would love to have planetaries on one of these, the balance is perfect, on stage, capo up 2 and play D fingering, that's G with a capital G and sounds like 5-string.

It appears to me a person could play tenor with this.

I would put a bunch of spikes in. The intonation is a little more critical, I just couldn't get over the sound of that size chamber at those frequencies.






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Edited by - Helix on 04/30/2009 07:11:27

FXHERE - Posted - 04/30/2009:  10:25:59

Tommy George (TLG on the hangout) builds these small banjos in the different scales..He uses a brass rolled tonering and they sound really nice and are so light..If anyone is interested you can contact him at banjotom@hotmail.com Regards Doug

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