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Size: 487kb, uploaded 8/6/2012 7:13:24 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Other

I thought I uploaded this properly, but I can't FIND it, so I'm doing it again!

Baby Eel test tunes

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Size: 1,223kb, uploaded 8/6/2011 9:14:02 AM
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This is the baby Eel, a smaller version of the Squared Eel banjo. Scrap lumber body and neck, 2-liter soft drink bottle sliced and flattened for the head. La Bella #17 nylon banjo strngs.

Battle Hymn/Dixie (Semi-Scruggs)

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Played on a 12-inch open back, made from hollow-core door veneer. Remo permatension head (No brackets!) The style is sort of Scruggs rolls, bare fingers, with the occasional down stroke whenever I felt like it.

Beadland Banjo Test

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Size: 866kb, uploaded 1/5/2012 9:14:25 PM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time

Good old "Cripple Creek". Since the frets are just deep scratches in the Fomica (TM) fingerboard, I was trying for as many slides as I could squeeze in.

Beating on the Beater

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Size: 923kb, uploaded 5/12/2011 2:42:28 PM
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This is the old beater banjo that I put a new head and tuners on. After I get the sound here, I'll post a link to the pictures.

Big Bowl Banjo sound sample

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Size: 687kb, uploaded 7/23/2017 8:03:15 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Exercises and Licks

Various bits of banjo tunes, played on a banjo made from a 12 inch salad bowl, with a heat-shrunk deli tray lid for a head, and windshield wiper reinforcing strips for frets

Blow Ye Winds of Morning

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Seeger neck, by me. HELIX body, Nerdgoggles bridge by Xnavyguy An old whaling song

Bold and Jolly Pirate

Written/Posted by mike gregory

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Size: 3,042kb, uploaded 11/29/2007 10:16:40 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Other

In topics:
Sunday Hymn Time
Sea chanty singer beginning to learn old time banjo

Wrote this when I was really frustrated by all the stuff going on at once. Job dissatisfaction, financial woes, and my son being psychologically abused by his stepfather.

Butterfly of love

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Played on a cheap copy of a POLLMAN "Banjolin" which I cobbled together. 23 inch scale, LaBella #17 nylon strings.

Camptown Races/Travel banjo test

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Size: 1,327kb, uploaded 12/23/2014 9:24:08 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

Testing out an electric guitar which now has a 3.75 inch banjo head- made from a disposable plastic lid.

Cello 16 Test Track

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Size: 1,235kb, uploaded 10/25/2011 8:03:51 AM
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This Old man, he got mellow, played a test track, on his cello.

Cheap And Worried Man

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This is the MP3 of a songbeing played in 3 styles, on a banjo shown HERE http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/280526 I made it from a Latinfn Percussion(TM) RythMix hand drum, a used electrical guitar neck, and a salad bowl. I try a little Seeger style, then Scuggs, then what passes for Clawhammer when I'm at home and nobody's around.

CRIPPLE CREEK on one-stringed banjo

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Size: 615kb, uploaded 12/3/2013 8:08:04 AM
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See the picture of the Super WUNJO in my Phot files

Dead As A DODrO (Cripplest Creek!)

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Played on the resophonic instrument I made. It's not a DOBRO,which is a trademarked name. And it's designed to LOOK like a coffin. So I call it "Dead As A DODO", with an added small r, to make the word LOOK a bit like "DOBRO". Just my way of having fun.

Dixie Salad

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Size: 588kb, uploaded 5/14/2016 8:04:19 PM
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"DIXIE" played on a banjo made from a salad bowl. Started Seeger style, then switched to Scruggs.

Drunk Again

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Actually an anti-driving drunk song. As I passed from one room to another, the radio was playing the tune that I used for the chorus. I had no idea what the lyrics were, but the tune caught me, and I was singing along to it, making up my own words. About two hours later, the whole song had been cobbled together. If you like, I can e-mail you the chords and lyrics.

Electric Red / Acoustic test

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This is the rummage sale electric guitar depicted in topic http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/269018/#3393885 PLayed acoustically, no pickup, no amp.

Electric red, Amped

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As depicted in http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/269018/#3393885 This time, through an amp.

Electric Red, both ways

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Size: 1,228kb, uploaded 8/30/2013 10:50:57 AM
Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Minstrel (Stroke Style)

This is the hybrid electric/acoustic banjo I made, played pirectly into a small Marshall amp, with the "Line Out" into a batery-powered radio shack mixer, and from there into my computer mic jack. This way, you'll hear the MAGNETIC pickup on the first go-through, and the built-in microphone on the second.

Five Hour Banjo-Cabbage Them Boils On Down

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Size: 828kb, uploaded 2/28/2015 8:57:03 AM
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Took me 5 hours to quickly and cheaply cobble together this banjo. http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/300085/2/#3798555 Fishing line for strings, eyebolts for tuning pegs, plastic soft drink bottle tacked and heat-shrunk for a head. Tried a bit of strumming, a bit of Seeger style, and some simple Bluegrass rolls.