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Alan Hill - Posted - 10/21/2009: 21:42:31
Hi all i was wondering is there any one on the hangout with just one banjo or are we all just banjo crazy are we always looking for the next must have banjo and like me trying to think of a good excuse to tell the wife , and then you get ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you said the one before last was your last ever banjo do guitar players have the same problem oh well
alan
brokenstrings - Posted - 10/21/2009: 21:48:21
Three, but only two usable.
Jessy
Frailaway, ladies, frailaway!
brinard - Posted - 10/21/2009: 21:51:03
as a guitar/banjo player... yes, i own multiples of each.
two banjos, six guitars, three guitar amps...
BANJOJUDY - Posted - 10/21/2009: 22:15:40
Someone wise once said, "If you know how many cats you own, you don't own enough."
Holds true for banjos! Get more than you can keep track of - and I don't tell my spouse anything except, "Hey, I have a new banjo!"
He has yet to groan in front of me - but I did buy 100 sets of ear plugs a few weeks ago....never know when they'll come in handy.
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Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/21/2009: 22:40:48
There was a long thread on this not so very long ago. I have probably seven that I play, two of them a lot.
Bill
jfrebel - Posted - 10/21/2009: 22:41:04
I have one banjo. it plays very well. I don't see any need for another one.
robmac07 - Posted - 10/21/2009: 23:57:55
I have 7 banjos but they all are quite different in sound plus I play Bluegrass and Old Timey with a leaning towards the latter as I grow older. Also have 4 guitars, a fiddle, dulcimer, 2 autoharps, bass, accordion and piano. Used to own a Dobro too. I think I need to get out more!
Rob McCarthy
Pensnut - Posted - 10/22/2009: 02:01:19
I have only one banjo :( But some where around a dozen string instruments.
Pensnut
"The red ants always win."
oldwoodchuckb - Posted - 10/22/2009: 02:21:17
I have two main playing banjos a couple Korean banjos, a nylon strung 5 string, a tenor tuned like a uke, and a POS Chinese made banjo, of the type where the necks get broken a lot in shipping. It is for experiments.
My wife never bothers me about such things - she has about 16 fiddles,
http://www.rocketsciencebanjo.com
Rocket Science Banjo - Advanced Clawhammer Techniques for beginners and long time players alike. Plus videos and 25-40 EZ Clawhammer Tunes.
& check out "How To Mold A Mighty Pinky" at:
http://www.pricklypearmusic.net
banjo brad's great banjo site
Edited by - oldwoodchuckb on 10/22/2009 19:54:27
sjones4 - Posted - 10/22/2009: 02:57:15
I have 6 banjos. 1 is a Gold Tone openback, 1 is a 6 string, the other 4 are 5 string resonators. My best banjo is a 1967 Gibson RB800. I would like to have a Gibson Prewar and ???. I just started learning the banjo this year and in the early stages of learning. I wonder how many banjos I'll own when I do finally learn to play well.
Steve Jones
jpiperson2002 - Posted - 10/22/2009: 03:45:12
I have 3 entry level banjos, a Goodtime open back used as a project banjo for testing new components, a Gold Tone CC-OT with a silentbanjo head and Schatten pickup for quiet practice through headphones, and a Gold Tone BG-250 with the removable resonator for bluegrass style.
Also have a Gold Tone Dojo which is a banjo neck on a single cone resonator guitar body. That one's really a guitar but the banjo neck lets me use banjo fingering while playing along with other guitars.
For what these cost I could have purchased a single used professional level instrument. If I could do it over again I'd still have at least 2 banjos though, a plunky light weight open back for clawhammer/travel/just-plain-fun and a heavy resonator for that sharper bluegrass sound. And a few different types of heads and tailpieces and a dozen good bridges and some sets of strings in different weights. Swapping out those parts on 2 banjos would make them sound like 2 dozen different instruments.
John Piper
MarkRough - Posted - 10/22/2009: 04:12:48
3 - 5strings, well two, because I'm going to pitch one out my truck window at high speed one day soon (a Hohner), but I'll go back and pick up the head (a pretty nice Weatherking).
3 - tenors
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Some days you're the dog. . . other days you're the hydrant.
pegleg - Posted - 10/22/2009: 04:50:43
2 banjos 3rd on the way
2 guitars
1 fiddle
1 mandolin
1 harmonica
3 mountain dulcimers
1 piano keyboard
Can't play any real well but it is fun trying!!
cardinbanjo - Posted - 10/22/2009: 05:02:50
4 5 strings
1 dojo
1 vega N tenor
1 Martin HD 28
1 Ovation 5778
1 tenor 30's noname
3 ukes
1 Scott Cao fiddle
cardinbanjo
ramjo - Posted - 10/22/2009: 05:06:46
I have one banjo and lust for a couple more.
mrichmon - Posted - 10/22/2009: 05:18:48
3 - 5 strings, one of which is worth playing "often"
2 - acoustic guitars
1 - fiddle
1 - mando
1- harmonica
1 - stratocaster
Frailinaway - Posted - 10/22/2009: 05:27:57
2 open-back 5-strings
1 tenor
2 mandolins
1 octave mandolin
1 acoustic guitar
1 classic guitar
1 set of bones
1 musical saw
1 "juice" harp
................and a whole library full of instruction books, CDs and DVDs ...........
MarkRough - Posted - 10/22/2009: 05:32:22
quote:
Originally posted by Frailinaway
1 "juice" harp
Oh, go ahead. I'm a member of the tribe. You can call it by it's name. ----------------- Some days you're the dog. . . other days you're the hydrant.
CosmicMaskedAvenger - Posted - 10/22/2009: 06:00:52
two banjos I play
two I'm working one
three fiddles, two that play one i'm working on
8, I think, guitars
two mandolins
a flugelhorn
piano and a couple of keyboards
hmmm...no wonder I aint got no money.....
Deering Sierra
Deering Goodtime
jbalch - Posted - 10/22/2009: 06:09:21
I keep a few banjos...and trade a good bit. There are very good reasons to own more than one banjo.
1. variety of sounds: I use banjos that range from Wunderlich minstrel (14" rim and 29" scale)...to a 23 1/4" scale Bart Reiter. Each has its own unique voice and purpose. None of the can really "replace" any other.
2. variety of tunings for performing: I regularly use three or more tunings for clawhammer. It is often helpful to have two or three banjos available to minimize the amount of tuning required between tunes.
3. Scale length: I can't play some of my tunes on full-scale (26 1/4") banjos because that length requires me to stretch too far. Having at least one short scale banjo addresses that need.
4. Set-up: I prefer calfskin heads. But I usually keep at least one open-back banjo set-up with a mylar head for playing in some weather conditions. I use steel most of the time. But I always want at least one banjo set-up with gut strings. I prefer my bluegrass banjos set up with lower action and resonators installed.
5. Different banjos for various playing styles: 5-string open back (clawhammer, classical, minstrel), 5-string resonator (bluegrass and/or clawhammer), 17-fret tenor (jazz & Celtic, and old time), 19-fret tenor (jazz), plectrum (jazz, dixieland), banjolin, melody banjo...more
6. Affordable fun...banjos are relatively inexpensive (compare to other instruments). You can have a closet full of fine banjos for the price of one pro-grade mandolin.
www.johnbalchmusic.com
www.myspace.com/johnbalch
Edited by - jbalch on 10/22/2009 06:13:32
Gary Blanchard - Posted - 10/22/2009: 06:22:46
I have two, the long-neck and a cookie tin banjo. The cookie tin is playable but not much in sound. In other instruments I have one 6-string acoustic, one 12-string acoustic, a travel guitar, an electric guitar, a ukuklele, and a mandolin. I'm not big on owning multiples of the same thing.
Gary Blanchard
"an outlier among outliers"
http://www.gbandf.com
banjobud - Posted - 10/22/2009: 06:25:36
My theory is that you need at least one for every day of the week and an extra one in case you forgot one at the lat jam. Never can have enough 5 string banjos.
The Hammer - Posted - 10/22/2009: 06:28:04
Gibson Crowe RB-75
Gibson Granada
8 Gibson Mastertone repros - various styles
Martin D-28V
Dave Hamm
2 Chronicles 7:14
KE - Posted - 10/22/2009: 07:05:26
I suppose a golfer could play with one club, but why? Likewise for banjo.
John Gribble - Posted - 10/22/2009: 07:53:34
Oh, I don't wanna talk about it. Only three banjos, but lots of other stuff, guitars, a mandolin, a fiddle, an Autoharp, a bunch of flutes, whistles, recorders...
But for over 35 years I had just one banjo and that was the one thing which I never ever considered parting with. I still have it, too.
John Gribble
Tokyo, Japan
teebee - Posted - 10/22/2009: 08:13:15
Just six....
a Goodtime OB, USA
a Minuteman OB, USA
a Trinity River 5-LongStrings converted from a Chinese banjitar, resonated,
a Grizzly OB fretless, a kit with frets removed, nylon strings, Korea?
a mountain fretless banjo I built, USA
a fretless gourd, gut strung, Thornburg, USA
a Buzzard Mountain custom on order[Jan], USA
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4 lap dulcimers, USA
a chinese fiddle,
bones, spoons, a keyboard, an Indiana guitar, harmonicas and
a shelf full of books, and a Little Tikes 8 note noisemaker
And then there's another list of the good ones that got away.
www.tybarlow.com
happy just to tinker
Viper - Posted - 10/22/2009: 09:36:05
Just one. My first: my Recording King Songster, which I hope to pass along to another beginner around Christmas time when the banjo I've commissioned is finished. However, I've been keeping my eye out for a beater/travel size/project banjo ...
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Right way or wrong way, I just want to play the banjo SOME way.
banjobilly32 - Posted - 10/22/2009: 10:02:12
I quickly counted 14 including a couple prewar Gibsons, B&D Silverbell,2 Slingerlands, Cole, 5 string, Farris 5 string Banjay, 4-5 wallhangers, a Vernon banjo uke, plus enough parts to make a few more!
Then there's the fiddle, the cello, A martin style 3 uke, a Maui Koa uke, a '23 Martin 2-17 guitar, a Blueridge guitar, a Martin kit guitar 00028, and oh yes a Dulcimer!
Maybe I should open a music store??
Bisbonian - Posted - 10/22/2009: 11:18:56
I think I have seven. I lost track.
"When Banjos are Outlawed, only Outlaws will have Banjos."
frailin - Posted - 10/22/2009: 11:24:35
As usual, John Balch's comment is sincerely brilliant! I'm printing out this list and keeping it in my banjo case(s) for quick reference. 
quote:
I keep a few banjos...and trade a good bit. There are very good reasons to own more than one banjo.
1. variety of sounds: I use banjos that range from Wunderlich minstrel (14" rim and 29" scale)...to a 23 1/4" scale Bart Reiter. Each has its own unique voice and purpose. None of the can really "replace" any other.
2. variety of tunings for performing: I regularly use three or more tunings for clawhammer. It is often helpful to have two or three banjos available to minimize the amount of tuning required between tunes.
3. Scale length: I can't play some of my tunes on full-scale (26 1/4") banjos because that length requires me to stretch too far. Having at least one short scale banjo addresses that need.
4. Set-up: I prefer calfskin heads. But I usually keep at least one open-back banjo set-up with a mylar head for playing in some weather conditions. I use steel most of the time. But I always want at least one banjo set-up with gut strings. I prefer my bluegrass banjos set up with lower action and resonators installed.
5. Different banjos for various playing styles: 5-string open back (clawhammer, classical, minstrel), 5-string resonator (bluegrass and/or clawhammer), 17-fret tenor (jazz & Celtic, and old time), 19-fret tenor (jazz), plectrum (jazz, dixieland), banjolin, melody banjo...more
6. Affordable fun...banjos are relatively inexpensive (compare to other instruments). You can have a closet full of fine banjos for the price of one pro-grade mandolin.
jbalch
"Gospel. The most powerful music in this world and the next."    www.frailin.comwww.myspace.com/frailinwww.myspace.com/singletonstreetwww.myspace.com/eelpouts& www.autismhangout.com
georgiagoodie - Posted - 10/22/2009: 12:56:57
(1) 5-String Openback Fretless Banjo (JB1865) (Adore it!)
(1) 5-String Reso BG Banjo ('71 Epi)
(1) 6-String Openback Banjo (GT-OT-6)
Also......................................................
(1) Fiddle
(3) Flat-top Guitars
(1) 12-String Acoustic Guitar
(1) Acoustic/Electric Classical/Flamenco Guitar
(1) Parlor Guitar ('Love it!)
(1) Dobro (Wood-Bodied Reso)
(1) Metal-bodied Reso Roundneck 6-String Guitar
(1) Upright Bass
(2) Acoustic Mandos
(1) Electric Autoharp
(1) Uke ('Love it!)
(1) Oud
(2) Lap Steels ((1) 8-string, (1) 6-String)
(1) Electric 4-String Mando
(1) Acoustic Archtop Guitar
(3) Electric Archtop Guitars
(9) Electric Solidbody Guitars
(1) Electric Doubleneck Bass VI/Guitar ((2) Bigsbys!!)
(4) Electric Basses
(1) Drum Set (Mid-70s Ludwig Classic Maple, Double Floor Toms......IT RAWKS!)
(1) Cocktail Drum Kit
(2) Djembes
(3) Dunun
(1) Krin
(1) Bass Cajon
(2) Congas
(1) Deff
(2) Bodhrans (one with jingles!)
(3) Washboards
(1) Jaw Bone
(6) Bones
(1) Riq
(1) Mushar
(1) Egyptian Tabla
(1) Davul
(4) Bass Amps
(10) Guitar Amps
(1) Synth
'Looking for a good deal on a Conn 20J Tuba........and maybe a nice big Indian pow wow drum.......
georgiagoodie
"Frets? We don't need no stinking frets!!"
howseth - Posted - 10/22/2009: 14:53:19
2 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 3 . My Ome + my Buckmaster = 2. +The Dojo (is 1/2 a banjo, 1/2 a guitar) + The Elias Banjocaster (is also 1/2 banjo, 1/2 electric guitar.) add up to 3 total banjos - by my reckoning.
Howard
whyteman - Posted - 10/22/2009: 16:11:48
My girlfriend is a sicko guitar player.
She has 1)a standard size Washburn,2) one of those plastic body aircraft guitars, 3)a modern parlor, 4)an 1890s parlor, and 5)a Maybelle style f hole arch top.
Yes, I have 5 banjos as well, but thats' different.
Don.
Haul off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve.
Banjo John C - Posted - 10/22/2009: 16:49:20
A handfull, and expecting a visit from FedEx pretty soon. Hope i'm home and not the wife when it arrives.
Old Tyme, all the time
Paul Roberts - Posted - 10/22/2009: 18:06:31
Captivating my imagination at the moment are two 5-string cello banjos; two 4-string cello banjos; and a Bob Carlin BC-350+.
The 5-string cellos I tune an octave down from standard G/C... all the way to an E below that. The 4's are set at GDAE or ADAE. One is an octave below fiddle; the other is two (!) octaves below fiddle.
The Carlin has a skin head, scoop, 12" rim and wide fingerboard... characteristics which provide lots of intriguing changes from the old tubaphone I've been palling around with for a good chunk of my existence.
This weekend my wife and I have a very fun gig, where we will combine many of our instruments: saz, xylophone, recorders, a couple cello banjos, cittern, sitar, sarod, dumbek, cheng, harp, hammer dulcimer, tenor banjo, bodhran... Gonna have some some fine dancers from the Divine Feminine Species, as well :) It's a wedding in a gorgeous new Buddhist temple, in a spectacular Colorado setting.
The banjo has been a portal for me to many sounds. Recently I have returned to the banjo - particularly in the form of the growly (recently resurrected) Cello Banjos that can masquerade as just about anything because their sound comes out of left field (having left the field of available instruments for many many years); their sound is not stereotyped - they haven't been "done" yet - there are places I can go on them which kind of integrates vistas I have encountered on a diverse selection of things plucked.
Pablito
http://www.banjocrazy.com/ all Gold Tone instruments for sale
http://www.youtube.com/user/strumstering my YouTube channel
handsup8 - Posted - 10/22/2009: 20:33:46
I played a Stew-Mac kit openback for 9 years: only banjo during that time. After I'd paid my dues (and cajoled my family to kick in for Xmas!) I bought a Tradesman which is my main banjo. SS Stewart Universal Favorite fell in my lap for 3 bills, and then bought a Prust Tackhead for 2 bills. So now I've got 4 banjos, all openback.
I'm saving for a high-end fretless and a custom guitar from Todd Cambio of Fraulini Guitars (if you love guitars, check out Todd's work!).
1 guitar, 1 banjo uke, 1 piano, 1 voice
Handsup8
Isaac Enloe - Posted - 10/22/2009: 20:59:13
I went through a long banjo buying and trading phase before I finally figured out that it isn't the banjo. I still have four banjos, but they're each for different styles/sounds of old-time playing:
12inch fretted
12inch fretless
Old Dobson with Nylguts
Resonator Banjo with a hoop tonering
The fretted 12inch Enoch and the Dobson get played the most. The resonator banjo's still in Japan!
Isaac
"There's more to think of than y'all's thought of, ain't it?"
-Paul Sutphin
ScottK - Posted - 10/22/2009: 22:21:00
quote:
As usual, John Balch's comment is sincerely brilliant! I'm printing out this list and keeping it in my banjo case(s) for quick reference.
In your banjo case or in your wallet? Might be handier in the latter... Scott
jfrebel - Posted - 10/23/2009: 00:25:29
LOL! some of y'all could open up your own music store.
I suppose one day when I'm good enough I might want certain banjos for certain things but my gold tone BG 250 is really nice and suits my needs just fine and dandy. I love it. it sounds great and has very low action and easy tuners and is just plain wonderful. I don't need another banjo at least for now.
now I do have other instruments. I have a guitar, a banjolele, a ukulele, tin whistle, harmonica, an appalachian dulcimer and a fiddle.
Edited by - jfrebel on 10/23/2009 00:26:28
erstokke - Posted - 10/23/2009: 03:26:35
I have two decent banjos, a RK-R80 bluegrass banjo and an Ome openback. I also have my first Framus banjo - for sentimental reasons only.
I have replaced my old russian mandolin with a newer one. Dont know how to play it, tho.
I also have 2 dreadnought guitars, two nylon string guitars and two electric guitars. And a Yamaha keyboard.
My wife thinks I have too many instrument cases.
My banjo is pre-war. Pre the next war
Jan Erik from Norway
banjered - Posted - 10/23/2009: 05:42:54
A guy asked me once, "How many different musical instruments do you play?"
"About a dozen," I replied.
"Wow," He said! "Where are they?"
"They are right here in my harmonica case."
Snicker. TC
ScottK - Posted - 10/23/2009: 08:45:08
At a workshop at American Banjo Camp a few years back someone asked Mike Seeger how many banjos he owned. He replied, "Ooooooohhhh, I don't know...". Somebody else in the room said, "Yeah, that's what I tell my wife, too."
Scott
mastertone250 - Posted - 10/23/2009: 21:10:37
6 banjos, 3 i manly play, getting ready to get a Hatfeild. 2 Martin Guitars. A Les Paul I Rarely Play! Play My Dobro Quite a bit to! You cant never have to many banjos. Maybe After i get a Hatfeild special, i could get a buckcreek,then a celeberty, then a auroa...OHHH theres just so many to choose from. Im nuts for hatfeild banjos!
"Surround Yourself With Good Muscians". -J.D Crowe
“Nobody is a legend, we all put our pants on one leg at a time.” - Sonny Osborne
manmademusic - Posted - 10/23/2009: 22:38:34
2 banjos
1 acoustic guitar (borrowed)
1 fiddle
3 electric guitars
5? harmonicas
2 spoons
1 set of lips for whistling
1 pair of lungs for singing
1 pair of feet for dancing (not so good though)
Gary
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Clodhopper - Posted - 10/24/2009: 12:00:38
I've got three, four if you count the unplayable wooden head hexagonal pot kit banjo I tried to start on.
The real ones are a Gold Tone CC-100, a home made fretless that is in my avitar, or whatever that picture is called. Most recently I got a Bart Reiter Regent.
Surprisingly, my wife is all for me buying more banjo's, etc, ever since we decided she should get matching funds for her discretionary spending.
If there is money in farming, it's very well hidden.
J-Walk - Posted - 10/24/2009: 13:13:00
I've been waiting to reply to this thread because a new one was on it's way. Now it's here, and I have 13 (if you count banjo ukes). Since that's an unlucky number, I need to get rid of one, or buy another.
Jason Burns #11, Spunover, Dobson TR
Romero 11" "Lizard Petroglyph"
Doc's Banjos 12" #75
Ramsey 12" Special
Chuck Lee 12" Prairiewood Vintage
Whyte Laydie 11" / Lo Gordon Neck
H.C Dobson 1880s "Silver Bell"
John Bowlin 1865 Fretless
Menzies 14" Gourd
Bisbee Banjo Works Gourd #1
No-name 1890's spunover rim (wall hanger)
No-name 1920's 7" banjo uke
No-name 19?? 8.25" banjo-uke
Ronnie - Posted - 10/24/2009: 18:07:22
I mentioned I have only 4 banjos right now. . You don't want to get me started on the other instruments in the house.
www.bobbythompsonbanjo.com
RWJones1970 - Posted - 10/26/2009: 12:46:08
*** JWalk, you also need to take a new picture of your "family portrait" since you added a new member.
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