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Lou Bourbon - Posted - 10/12/2014: 15:52:35
Is that when a banjo dresses up as a guitar?
Lou
banjo bill-e - Posted - 10/12/2014: 16:04:57
No, that would be a Guitjo or a Banjitar. A Tranjo is a Travel Banjo, not a crossdressing banjo! But it does sound like a banjo that has had an, um, "operation".
Lou Bourbon - Posted - 10/12/2014: 16:16:53
From here on out, I'm referring to Guitar Banjos or any other bastardization of the 4 or 5 string banjo as a tranjo....they just don't know what they want to be!
It's ok...just be a guitar, or a mandolin...or a....cello.
Come on now....cello/banjo? That's like a guy wanting to be a horse....in a tuxedo with rich parents.
They're all tranjos....
mike gregory - Posted - 10/13/2014: 05:33:51
You say that like it's a BAD thing!
CEParagon124 - Posted - 10/13/2014: 07:43:19
Mike, how do you come up with this stuff?
Do you just Google for it, or do you possess a vast store of seemingly useless knowledge, information and photographic artifacts?
Charlie Noyes
Edited by - CEParagon124 on 10/13/2014 07:43:53
mike gregory - Posted - 10/13/2014: 09:18:11
I have "AOL Image Search" on my "FAVORITES" list.
I click it, and enter a few keywords.
In this case, "horse tuxedo", and I get a page full of images.
Here, look at the page.
search.aol.com/aol/image?s_it=...se+tuxedo
and here's a page for" banjo monkey"
search.aol.com/aol/image?s_it=...jo+monkey
It is VERY SELDOM that I have to download two images and combine them, like I did when I replaced the large handbag with a banjo case in THIS one of Mary Poppins:
CoE15NJV - Posted - 10/13/2014: 11:02:13
quote:
Originally posted by Lou Bourbon
Is that when a banjo dresses up as a guitar?
Lou
Think of it as an alternative lifestyle.
Steven
Lew H - Posted - 10/13/2014: 11:05:01
The banjo was TRANSfered from Africa by slaves to the New World. It was slowly TRANSfered from African Americans to white Americans. African Americans mostly put down the banjo in the first part of 20th century. It was TRANSformed from a stick poked through a gourd with 3 strings (the akonting) into a great variety of morphs--banjo-mandolin, resonator, open-back, long-neck, banjeaurine, banjo uke, 5-string, tenor, plectrum banjitar, cello-banjo, baritone banjo. So I think they are all tranjos. The banjo seems always to be becoming something that it didn't used to be.
sdfarris - Posted - 10/14/2014: 06:09:18
"Tranjo" is a trademarked name for my line of TRAvel baNJO products. So every time you use that name, you owe me a quarter. I'm keeping track...
Sam Farris
tranjo.com
Montanarick - Posted - 10/14/2014: 12:36:56
youtu.be/nSdQje89W3U
I don't know....but for a little banjer that you can break down to 21 inches in about 2mins.....and throw in a suitcase or back pack....I think it sounds awesome. I have one and have had a lot of fun with it.
