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Haskells RB3 - Posted - 11/12/2009: 13:25:06
check this out Ebay Item number 120488710096
Haskells RB3 - Posted - 11/12/2009: 13:47:43
Me to, but this was pretty cool.
pdbanjo - Posted - 11/12/2009: 14:01:52
Gota love the tuner stuck on the banjo peg head!! Classic!!!! LMAO!!!!!
PD
There's so little time and so much room to experiment, why choose to play like someone else? If I were Earl, I wouldn't play it like me either.
Shamrock - Posted - 11/12/2009: 14:03:56
Imagen dragging it to a gig as 'The Band'.
How would people react?
Juup
"Excuse my English, I think in Dutch"
Banjopkr - Posted - 11/12/2009: 14:42:33
I saw one of these at Wall Drug in South Dakota about 7 years ago. It played an entertaining version of Earl's Breakdown, among other tunes. However, the Foggy Mountain Boys it wasn't.
picnparty - Posted - 11/12/2009: 14:57:55
I knew of a gentlemen who had a player piano at his cabin. He would have large groups of people staying regularly who he would wake up every morning with the player piano. Hilarious
I saw one of these somewhere and I thought of that player piano and how neat it was. Put a big smile and memories. Be neat to have a couple of these strange players in your parlor. Probably has some cool rag time tunes....did you see the tenors lined up on the bottom. 
Bootes...
Axeman79 - Posted - 11/12/2009: 15:11:39
This is an engineer's dream or nightmare. I would assume that it can be programmed to play new songs? My father once has a player piano with hundreds of paper scrolls. All you needed were feet...darn thing kept me in great shape!
Axeman
If the minimum wasn't good enough...it wouldn't be the minimum.
Oalbrets - Posted - 11/12/2009: 15:50:13
I hope the Pizza Parlor down the street don't purchas one of these things.
Poverty Ridge Bluegrass
Klondike Waldo - Posted - 11/12/2009: 17:25:56
quote:
Originally posted by Oalbrets
I hope the Pizza Parlor down the street don't purchas one of these things.
Poverty Ridge Bluegrass
Hmmmm... That could be a "shakey" proposition I'll never play like Earl Scruggs or sing like Luciano Pavarotti, but I'll pick better than Luciano and sing tenor better than Earl deligo ergo renideo, Bob Cameron
Oalbrets - Posted - 11/12/2009: 17:48:09
They would put it on the Round Table.
Poverty Ridge Bluegrass
jpiperson2002 - Posted - 11/13/2009: 03:26:13
The House on the Rock in Wisconsin, a major local tourist attraction, probably has the biggest collections of musical mechanical automata like that in the world. Many similar juke box style machines like that one on eBay shown above and many full rooms of baroque style automated instruments such as this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...truments.jpg
I don't recall that any of them had a banjo though. This one is beautiful and would be a real conversation piece but sort of a white elephant there are probably only a handful of people in the country who know how to work on them.
John Piper
JackJack - Posted - 11/13/2009: 09:43:01
That is pretty cool. I'd really like to see it play. I've seen others with xylophones and horns at our local amusement park, but not a bluegrass one. Sweet!
NYCJazz - Posted - 11/13/2009: 14:21:28
Disable that banjo, and I'll give it a job as my backup band.
I'm assuming it can play in keys other than G, and that it knows augmented and diminished chords!
Does it drink?
Nathan
Oalbrets - Posted - 11/13/2009: 14:28:49
Does it teach Tab?
Poverty Ridge Bluegrass
billy moore - Posted - 11/14/2009: 18:18:36
Hey Jack I think this thing could really improve your playing!
Haskells RB3 - Posted - 11/14/2009: 21:43:58
Hey Billy, I didnt think anything can improve yours. You might want to take up Ping Pong or piano at this point. Hey try to make to Petes party next weekend it will be a good jam .
Edited by - Haskells RB3 on 11/14/2009 21:47:31
mrbook - Posted - 11/16/2009: 20:01:40
I haven't been there in a decade, but there used to be a musical museum in Deansboro, NY (south of Utica) full of these machines. Most would operate if you brought some change.
Bill
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