Strummers & Pickers:
Any Philly Mummer String Band banjosits out there? I need your expertise, please.
I have a tenor banjo and I am trying to learn a particular "New Year's Day" song standard - a Philadelphia Mummers standard" - "Annie From 2nd Street".
I thought the proper tuning for songs like this - and the Mummers' String Band style - was CGDA tuning. I want to verify this tuning for strumming "String Band" type music.
Question #1) IS THE PROPER TUNING "CGDA" or "CGBD" or "GDAE" or DGBD or ......?
Question #2) Which kind of strings would be easier to strum "Steel" or "Nylon"?
I'm dying to try "NYLON" strings.
Loaded Question #3) What style of playing - 5 stringers, 4 stringers, plectrum, finger picking - are Nylon strings appropriate for?
Thank you!
Mike
Edited by - 86OmniGLH on 08/11/2026 21:30:44
Try contacting the various websites related to the Mummers association. (btw, I doubt you will find any mummers using anything other than steel strings. I grew up in Reading PA, & saw many parades starting in the late 40's).
/google.com/search?q=Mum...5MTFqMGo3q
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Originally posted by tdennisTry contacting the various websites related to the Mummers association. (btw, I doubt you will find any mummers using anything other than steel strings. I grew up in Reading PA, & saw many parades starting in the late 40's).
/google.com/search?q=Mum...5MTFqMGo3q
Ok. Thanks for responding.
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