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

Posted - 10/21/2009 :  21:48:21      

Three, but only two usable.

Jessy

Frailaway, ladies, frailaway!

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...

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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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

Posted - 10/21/2009 :  22:41:04  

I have one banjo. it plays very well. I don't see any need for another one.

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

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."

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,


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Edited by - oldwoodchuckb on 10/22/2009 19:54:27

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

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

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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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!!

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

Posted - 10/22/2009 :  05:06:46      

I have one banjo and lust for a couple more.

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

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 ...........

Posted - 10/22/2009 :  05:32:22      

quote:

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Originally posted by Frailinaway
1 "juice" harp

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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

Posted - 10/22/2009 :  06:04:28    

Much to my wife's chagrin:

8 banjers
2 acoustic guitars
1 electric guitar
1 dobro
1 dobjo
1 uke
1 banjo mandolin
two fiddles that I can't hit a lick on
1 upright bass
1 jews harp
3 harmonicas
1 fiddle-shaped clock that my brother-in-law made for me

Tom Briarhopper
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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.


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Edited by - jbalch on 10/22/2009 06:13:32

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"
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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.

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

Posted - 10/22/2009 :  06:47:32        

I only have 4 banjos now.

www.bobbythompsonbanjo.com

Posted - 10/22/2009 :  07:05:26      

I suppose a golfer could play with one club, but why? Likewise for banjo.