Interested in knowing the type of music long neck players gravitate to. Old time bluegrass, folk, other??? Just curious. Me? I'm an old folky.
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 | wbheilmann says:
8/21/2014 10:14:03 PM
Oldtime/Folk/Celtic for me...clawhammer.
WB
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 | giweb says:
8/21/2014 10:19:30 PM
Folk, primarily, from the 1950s and 1960s. The tuning is closer to vocal range. See Pete Seeger history on the internet. People who say they duplicate keys with alternate tunings and higher necking of capos just don't get it! Long Necks! Twangy and Bluegrass when you want it; mellow when you don't. Long Necks Forever!
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 | calypsojimmy says:
8/22/2014 8:18:59 AM
For me it always depends upon the instrument. Some instruments sound best fingerpicked, some are better frailers/clawhammer instruments, some are great for both. You don't often see bluegrass players playing a long neck.... the classic bluegrass banjo sound is a Mastertone sound, and that's not going to be what a longneck does. Plus... it's sort of a religious thing: Bluegrassers are just not going to be seen playing a long neck. That being said, I really enjoy playing bluegrass rolls on my long neck... I think it sounds great. My current instrument has a 1927 Vega Tubaphone rim on it, and it a very bright lively sound when picked. In the end, I am a folky too ... I like all the pre-bluegrass picking & frailing styles... and I find that a good long neck is a remarkably flexible and beautiful-sounding instrument.... and enough of a hybrid design to go in any direction you wish.
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 | kwfolk1 says:
8/22/2014 8:57:48 AM
Folk, Oldtime, Celtic. Singer/Songwriter...
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 | raymond66 says:
8/22/2014 9:18:20 AM
I started playing a seeger Vega long neck in the early sixties playing folk music ( mainly Kingston Trio ). In the eighties, I got into Bluegrass and put the long away. More recently, I started attending Kingston Trio Fantasy Camp where the long neck is king. I made two long necks this year. One with a Tube-a-phone tone ring and one with a mastertone tone ring. I have used the one with the Mastertone tone ring at some gigs that are essentially Bluegrass gigs. It does the job but is treated as a curiousity by the bluegrass set.
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 | Mulligan says:
8/22/2014 11:27:05 AM
Irish (of course) i.e. Clancy Bros., Tommy Makem, Dubliners, Irish Rovers, etc.
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 | Banjo Lefty says:
8/23/2014 12:09:15 PM
Everything. I only have the one instrument, a Gold Tone MC150. I'm just learning bluegrass, but I think it sounds pretty good. The banjo, that is, not my picking.
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 | boulderfolkie says:
8/24/2014 9:16:51 AM
Our band's set lists include South Coast, Irene, Tumbleweeds, Ginseng Sullivan, White Man, Long May You Run, Four Rode By, Pay Me My Money Down, Milltowns, Brother Ephus, Jamaica Farewell, and..well...you get the idea. Having played one or another ODE longnecks since 1963, I now play an OME longneck (never with picks). As Pete demonstrated many times, the LN can be adapted to ANY style of music from folk to blues to classical and even (c)rap. At the risk of sounding snooty, there's no other banjo configuration as versatile as the Seeger Long Neck.
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 | Helix says:
8/24/2014 3:58:52 PM
I play Seeger up-picking, frailing or down-picking and clawhammer, Scruggs 3-finger solos, clawgrass and bluehammer.
I play Blues to Bluegrass, Xmas carols, Beatles and the Cranberries.
I'm 68, so I don't play as often, nor neither as frequently as I would like, same could be said for other things as well.
The longneck lets me do anything I want. I also write new material for long neck.
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 | coalandice says:
8/25/2014 12:50:45 PM
Innocent passersby have described it
as "very bad"
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 | Ken LeVan says:
8/25/2014 1:07:49 PM
You can play anything on it. It's just like a regular banjo, except the neck is longer, and you can play in E in G positions and A in C positions. Open, it has an otherworldly harpsichord sound.
I think most longneck players are folkies, like me and most of us capo up, but I play bluegrass, folk music (considering Irish folk songs to be folk music) and other traditional music on mine. Longnecks have a different image than Resonator blusgrass banjos. Most bluegrass players would feel too self conscious playing a longneck on stage, just like Pete Seeger would have felt playing a Gibson Mastertone
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 | finnslr says:
8/26/2014 10:11:35 AM
I play folk, and up-pick I learned from an old African gentleman who was 93 in'66. I play a lot for retired group and do Kingston Trio, Dylan, and old folk songs. It's a lot of fun to get them to sing with me and watch the smiles light ou the room.
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Banjo Bub says:
8/30/2014 10:22:59 AM
Old Folk Era music. Still Playing with the same 4 guys for 52 years. Repertoire hasn't changed that much over that time. We all live at distance from each other and play 3-4 times a year, so working up newer material is tough. Still playing my ODE LN and PS VEGA. Don't use picks any more.
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