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Nylon-strung 19-fret tenor banjo
Thumb and index finger up-picking
Another Jig Will Do (Irish slip jig)
Munster Buttermilk (Irish jig)
Tenpenny Bit (English country dance)
Orgies Nocturne (Breton gavotte)
O'Keefe's Slide (Irish slide)
Thanks, RIck, hearing from you is like old times.
Janet, thanks for your comment. If anything I do can get you toe-tapping, head rocking and practically dancing, then I have achieved my highest purpose.
Tom, thanks for commenting; glad you enjoyed it. I'm playing a Soundbird, a custom Gold Tone tenor I designed out of my own needs and offer through my banjo business banjocrazy.com. I needed a tenor optimized for nylon strings, and figured a 12" was the way to go in order to project the warm of tone I was searching for. It's a 19-fret.
I play the Soundbird on many YouTube videos, using various tuning ranges and different playing techniques.
I currently have it tuned to octave mandolin range, with the 4th string at A. From 4th to 1st it's ADAE.
The string gauges I'm using on this recording are:
4th = .042" silverwound nylon
3rd = .034" silverwound nylon (or .035", whichever I have around)
2nd = .040" plain nylon (third string classical guitar)
1st = .027" plain (light gauge first string classical guitar)
I've experimented quite a bit with gauges, and a lot depends on what range I'm playing in. I've gone down as low as F Bb F C, as in this tune:
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