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... for those of us who prefer the tuning and singing differences the LN provides. All questions & help welcome!

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From john bange on 3/22/2015 7:03:25 AM

guys,

it's begining to look like all of us old folkies have got our long neck banjos.

I'm glad, I'm not trying to sell one right now.

I enjoy buying one to refurbish, keep and play for a while and then move it on but, that's just not happening right now.

There are four beautiful examples on the BHO classifieds linked to this group and 5 on fleabay, right now...never seen the selection so good

"what's happened to folk music"

it's still here...just gone underground and only the cool kids know about it.

11 Comments
	boulderfolkie says: 1/14/2015 7:36:12 AM Folk Music Isn't Dead; It Just Smells Funny.
	wizofos says: 1/14/2015 10:01:23 AM It's not the music that smells funny, it's the people who play it.
	Michael R says: 1/14/2015 11:49:53 AM 1963 was over 50 years ago. Back then I was young and I didn't listen to any music from 1913. But all it takes are some young college age people with talent bring life back into the music. As for the long neck banjo it was more look than sound. Me and all the other Dave Gard wannbes had to have one. I got an Ode. Wouldn't be caught dead with a resonator banjo, well at least not until Bonnie and Clyde got popular. But to be serious, does anyone have a list of long neck banjo recordings featuring the open, 1st or 2nd fret sound?
	john bange says: 1/14/2015 4:42:56 PM Oh, oh...a hint of 22 fret snobbery
	giweb says: 1/19/2015 7:52:14 PM Long Neck Group, I'm doing my share! Just took delivery of my 8th Long Neck banjo this fiscal year! Bought three empty long neck cases as well! All this was denied to me during the "Dave Guard / John Stewart" Kingston Trio Era. Reliving my poor youth with middle-age abandon! Only one 22-fret in this stable! giweb
	Banjo Lefty says: 1/29/2015 10:10:31 AM You know, in the sixties, I did listen to 1913 music. Took a couple of piano lessons from an old guy who had been one of Scott Jopiln's last students. Loved the stuff.
	Mike Casey says: 2/2/2015 2:30:08 PM This Saturday on one of the network morning shows (ABC?) they showcased a group of 5 young kids with a girl singer, two songs. I think the band was called Phoz or something similar. They were interesting enough and one of the guys was playing a Gold Tone Longneck. It was run through a pickup of some kind and was electronically altered as regards the sound. I won't say I understood the manner in which it was played, part strumming and then some rather unobtrusive noting with a two finger approach, no rolls or much of a pattern. It added the "authentic folk music" look without the "authentic folk sound" so to speak. It was good to see them and that they obviously felt like the banjo belonged in their music.
	Michael R says: 2/3/2015 2:44:41 PM So, getting back to the sound of the open longneck, it seems to me the first position is not too attractive. Are there melodys that can be played say up the neck and take advantage of the lower open pitch strings?
	R.D. Eno says: 3/22/2015 7:28:49 AM On "Wake Me When It's Over", Tom McKenzie plays clawhammer in a banjo duet with Doug Knight on "Hangman's Reel" in E, G tuning.
	Banjo Lefty says: 3/22/2015 9:13:16 AM It's not that the songs are diiferent on a long-neck, it's that they can be played at a singable pitch.
	kwfolk1 says: 3/22/2015 11:23:43 AM Longneck = flexibility. Nuff said...
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