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Posted by Jonnycake White on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I am laying aside my current banjo project (the Kirtland banjo) for a while to concentrate on building a banjola or two. This is a banjo neck on a mandola body. Except in this case, it's a little different from a banjo neck. The 5th string will be extended to the peghead and doubled. The two strings will probably be tuned a 5th apart - but provided with railroad spike capos at 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 12th frets so that any combination of notes may be used for the drone. I have bumped this up to top priority because there is a chance that I will be playing it with my daughters this coming spring at a Renaissance Fair. So naturally I have to have it finished before then. I am building two of each of the main wood parts - just in case one gets screwed up badly. So far I have two tops and two backs joined. If they don't get screwed up, I'll have a good jump on a second instrument - which will probably be the same but with a longer neck and heavier strings to be more of an accompaniment instrument.
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