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Oct 8, 2024 - 2:25:33 PM
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2058 posts since 11/6/2008

Since you liked this song I played it on six string banjo, better than banjolele I think... ;-)


Oct 8, 2024 - 3:11:43 PM

3499 posts since 3/30/2008

Please tell us the brand & dimensions of your instrument. It seems the rich voice & mood you created required a certain size head.

Oct 8, 2024 - 3:19:42 PM

banjopaolo

Italy

2058 posts since 11/6/2008

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Originally posted by tdennis

Please tell us the brand & dimensions of your instrument. It seems the rich voice & mood you created required a certain size head.


The instrument I'm playing here is an old Weymann guitar banjo (1916 I think), it has a 14' pot, no tone ring, I have set it up with a reinassence head a new scorpion bridge and a gold tone tailpiece (the original tailpiece is lost)... I love the sound of this instrument although someone here on the hangout talks about guitar banjos as evil! 

Oct 8, 2024 - 3:46:43 PM
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5289 posts since 4/7/2008

1. Your version of this great song is excellent.

2. Your banjo sounds amazing.

3. No instrument the great Danny Barker played—He loved 6-string banjo—could never be evil in my book, and you play 6-strong beautifully. (Danny Barker is one of my favorite musicians of all time.)

Oct 9, 2024 - 11:15:39 AM

banjopaolo

Italy

2058 posts since 11/6/2008

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Originally posted by Compass56

1. Your version of this great song is excellent.

2. Your banjo sounds amazing.

3. No instrument the great Danny Barker played—He loved 6-string banjo—could never be evil in my book, and you play 6-strong beautifully. (Danny Barker is one of my favorite musicians of all time.)


Thank you Tony!

Danny Barker is one of my favorite :-)

Oct 14, 2024 - 9:19:43 AM

6267 posts since 3/6/2006

A gorgeous rendition - love the chords!
Was the six string banjo invented for guitar players who couldn’t be bothered to learn banjo? smiley

Oct 14, 2024 - 10:03:38 AM

banjopaolo

Italy

2058 posts since 11/6/2008

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Originally posted by Laurence Diehl

A gorgeous rendition - love the chords!
Was the six string banjo invented for guitar players who couldn’t be bothered to learn banjo? smiley


Thank you Laurence :-)

I think in the Banjo Craze years were made many hybrids Banjo instruments (Guitar banjo, mandolin banjo, Ukulele banjo, also the tenor Banjo is a sorte of hybrid Mandola Banjo with single string) but I think as guitar Banjo as an instrument itself not as an Hybrid: there have been great player such as Johnny StCyr, Papa Charlie Jakson, Danny Barker and so on... the guitar Banjo has its own sound, it goes down to a bass register (no other kind of Banjo has those bass notes) so I think it is not an instrument for lazy people Who doesn’t want to learn banjo, at least it is not for me! 

It is an instrument tha allows you to do things that you can’t do on other kind of Banjo....

Oct 14, 2024 - 4:48:20 PM

3499 posts since 3/30/2008

I would try to avoid the common trend of being snarky about hybrid instruments. There is nothing lazy or easy about playing the GB. (Most instruments around are a hybrid of something else), ... I don't get why the GB player is put under a suspicious light.

Oct 14, 2024 - 10:07 PM

6267 posts since 3/6/2006

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Originally posted by banjopaolo
quote:
Originally posted by Laurence Diehl

A gorgeous rendition - love the chords!
Was the six string banjo invented for guitar players who couldn’t be bothered to learn banjo? smiley


Thank you Laurence :-)

I think in the Banjo Craze years were made many hybrids Banjo instruments (Guitar banjo, mandolin banjo, Ukulele banjo, also the tenor Banjo is a sorte of hybrid Mandola Banjo with single string) but I think as guitar Banjo as an instrument itself not as an Hybrid: there have been great player such as Johnny StCyr, Papa Charlie Jakson, Danny Barker and so on... the guitar Banjo has its own sound, it goes down to a bass register (no other kind of Banjo has those bass notes) so I think it is not an instrument for lazy people Who doesn’t want to learn banjo, at least it is not for me! 

It is an instrument tha allows you to do things that you can’t do on other kind of Banjo....


I did not wish to offend. I was actually thinking of a different era entirely - the recent music coming out of Nashville where they want to overlay some "banjo flavor" onto the track. Most of those parts are played on a guitar banjo because most of those session guys are guitar players, and it makes some kind of sense because they are responding to the pressures of the studio environment. But with modern studio techniques nothing is quite what it seems. I don't want to come off as dismissive.

Oct 15, 2024 - 12:03:13 AM
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banjopaolo

Italy

2058 posts since 11/6/2008

quote:
Originally posted by Laurence Diehl
quote:
Originally posted by banjopaolo
quote:
Originally posted by Laurence Diehl

A gorgeous rendition - love the chords!
Was the six string banjo invented for guitar players who couldn’t be bothered to learn banjo? smiley


Thank you Laurence :-)

I think in the Banjo Craze years were made many hybrids Banjo instruments (Guitar banjo, mandolin banjo, Ukulele banjo, also the tenor Banjo is a sorte of hybrid Mandola Banjo with single string) but I think as guitar Banjo as an instrument itself not as an Hybrid: there have been great player such as Johnny StCyr, Papa Charlie Jakson, Danny Barker and so on... the guitar Banjo has its own sound, it goes down to a bass register (no other kind of Banjo has those bass notes) so I think it is not an instrument for lazy people Who doesn’t want to learn banjo, at least it is not for me! 

It is an instrument tha allows you to do things that you can’t do on other kind of Banjo....


I did not wish to offend. I was actually thinking of a different era entirely - the recent music coming out of Nashville where they want to overlay some "banjo flavor" onto the track. Most of those parts are played on a guitar banjo because most of those session guys are guitar players, and it makes some kind of sense because they are responding to the pressures of the studio environment. But with modern studio techniques nothing is quite what it seems. I don't want to come off as dismissive.


Laurence my friend you could never offend me of course :-)

Once you told me 'music has two kinds: good music and bad music' if you don't like recent music coming from Nashville I think it is not because of guitar banjo instead of five string... Do you remember Neil Young's 'Old Man' from Harvrest? In that song there's a guitar banjo giving some banjo flavor (btw played by James Taylor) and I think it is one of the greatest song of all times! 


Oct 15, 2024 - 8:57:28 AM
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6267 posts since 3/6/2006

Fabulous arrangement Paolo. It must have been fun stitching all those parts together!

Oct 15, 2024 - 10:02:11 AM
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banjopaolo

Italy

2058 posts since 11/6/2008

quote:
Originally posted by Laurence Diehl

Fabulous arrangement Paolo. It must have been fun stitching all those parts together!


During covid times I learned how to do multiple video editing ;-)

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