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long necks on ebay

From john bange on 4/7/2013 6:52:52 AM

nice dowel stick Seeger and a Baldwin Ode but the really rare one is thttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Used-John-Gariepy-Xtra-Long-Neck-Open-back-5-String-Banjo-with-Case-/271185537787?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f23eaeafbhe Gariepy

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	TonyS says: 4/7/2013 8:23:07 AM ...nice...my birthday is real soon...
	olelise says: 4/7/2013 10:15:03 AM What is the deal with the metal pot? What does it do to the sound?
	Newl Post says: 4/7/2013 12:32:25 PM Re: The Metal pot. In general the more metal you have on a banjo (tuners, tailpiece, pot, number of tension hooks, thicker tension hoop, etc) the brighter it will sound. It's a matter of taste, really. I first learned to play on a no name Japanese long neck from the 1960's (probably from the same maker as the Barclay long necks of that era), with a metal pot. Once I got my first wood rim banjo (which had a skin head) I quickly developed a distaste for the sound of that metal pot long neck which had a plastic head. But I've heard a few nice sounding metal pot banjos in the ensuing 35 years that have almost changed my mind about those metal pots. One of those happened to be a Gariepy 22 fret bluegrass model banjo. It sounded about as good as one of those nice high end Japanese made mastertone style bluegrass banjos from the 70's.
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