fergaloh - Posted - 10/27/2009:  08:28:29

I was messing around and came up with this, tried to get the tenor to sound like a 5 string and well, does it?? hope ya like it

http://www.banjohangout.org/myhango...usicid=14850

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Edited by - fergaloh on 10/27/2009 08:28:49

Pepper Laing - Posted - 10/27/2009:  08:30:44

It sure does, nice sound too. That`s what I started on, a tenor but played like a fiver.

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MitchellB - Posted - 10/27/2009:  08:53:56

Not bad. I also started out with an old Tenor, trying to learn to play it like a 5 string. Nobody I knew, knowed anything about tenor banjos when I was 6 years old. I was lucky my parents could afford any kind of a banjo to give a kid at that age.

Mitchell

CoolSpring - Posted - 10/27/2009:  10:44:07

If I would have listened to it without being told anything I would probably have never thought it was a tenor. Since I have been told it is I do notice that something is different. I think the main thing that jumps out at me is the bass string. Nice picking!

harold saxton - Posted - 10/27/2009:  10:46:55

Sounds great. I gave it a four.

fred davis - Posted - 10/27/2009:  11:49:07

I think it sound just like any other tennor I 've heard unless one plays the fiver with a flat pick

Pepper Laing - Posted - 10/27/2009:  12:34:19

And some do play fivers with a flat pick, and make it sound like finger pickin`

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Michael Keith - Posted - 10/27/2009:  16:51:32

It don't sound like a 5 string because of the high G not being in there but, it did sound good for using a guitar pick.

diarmaid - Posted - 10/31/2009:  13:40:02

Good job! sounds pretty close to me, have you ever tried using one of those metal plectrums?...that might give a wee bit more metallic tone like fingerpicks and just picking upwards might make it even closer...though its sounding great!

Don Borchelt - Posted - 11/08/2009:  18:25:47

Fine job, O'hanlon. It reminds me quite a bit of the cross-picking styles of Jesse McReynolds on mandolin, or George Shuffler on guitar. Very pretty music.



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stringbeaner - Posted - 11/18/2009:  10:55:01

I've gotta go along with Don. A tenor doesn't have the sustain a 5 does for one thing. Nuthin' wrong with your pickin' but I don't believe I'd ever think it sounds like a 5.. The 5 has a drone string which you can hear almost all the way thru. your picking does sound like cross-picking some of the time. I've heard x-picking on mandolins, too. It's not an easy style but when you get it down, it really sounds good.

Stringbeaner

RatLer - Posted - 11/19/2009:  04:50:12

Got a good sound and your pickin' is good...its still a string short of a five...but who's counting anyway...

Feo - Posted - 11/21/2009:  14:12:22

I like what you're doing with the 4-string banjo .... I like to hear creative things done with all banjos..... I used to play a 4-stringer .... and when I met 5-string players , they'd look at me like I was handicapped ...poor me, I only had a 4-stringer ! LOL

I spotted this post and had to chime in .... what caught my attention is that today I was trying to get my 5-string banjo to sound like a tenor ( sort of )

So I guess I was trying to do what you are doing - but in reverse !

I tried some diddly-diddly jigs on the 5-string banjo that I used to play at the Irish dances years ago ...

http://www.banjohangout.org/myhango...usicid=15103

http://www.banjohangout.org/myhango...usicid=15104

Edited by - Feo on 11/21/2009 14:16:34