Got any tips about Tennessee? As a long time maker of old-time music who's lived most of his life in California, I have built up a powerful curiosity about Appalachia, because simply, I have never been there. Just so happens there's a Wedding in the family and I am headed to Knoxville, Tennessee!!! When all the relatives-goings-on simmer down I plan to drive east on Highway 81 with my wife (we are dragging along my two daughters too, 10 & 13) Galax, Virginia is about 3.5 hours away. We plan to spend a few days vacationing around the Smoky Mountains. Got any suggestions for a serious old time music fan to visit? You know, a list of must see places? Any fun (actually might not hate) places for tweens and young teens? Thanking you heaps, Dock
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Know Knox?
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Sullivan V35 Pot Assembly
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Calling all Aussie banjo players!
I need to pick ( no pun in tended) your collective brains. I am trying to find out if there are any collector of banjos in oz. By this I don't mean a picker who has more than a few banjos. Are there any serious collectors that you now of? My reason for asking is that I am doing research on a maker from Christchurch here that made instruments in the 1920's. His design was heavily influenced by the UK maker CLIFFORD ESSEX. To date my research has found that he made at least 288. I have one and have owned others. I have met folk who have them also. To make banjos during the banjo boom in the 1920, he would have sold that many and I doubt if they all were in NZ. I suspect that some may have migrated to Oz or further afield. The name of the maker was T.THOMSON ( not to be mistaken for THOMPSON & ODELL in the USA). Any thoughts?
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Good Friday Morning
Good morning from sunny Sweden.
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Washington Lee Swing
Here's a fun tune called "Washington Lee Swing" with Cliff Anglen (mandolin) and me on banjo.
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Video clips for new Rickard Maple Ridge banjo
I just posted a couple of clips on http://www.merriweather.ca/maple-ridge-banjos.html
Let me know what you think! Arnie
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Video Rickard Maple Ridge Banjo
I posted a couple of clips http://www.merriweather.ca/maple-ridge-banjos.html
Have a look, Arnie
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Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (intrumental, OT)
A quick clawhammer style take on this song from The Mothers of Invention/Frank Zappa. Gourd banjo in standard tuning (although pitched a little lower)
https://soundcloud.com/el-banjo-libre/take-your-clothes-off-when-you
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Banjo tabs for Stone Walls and Steel bars
Looking for banjo tabs for Stone walls and steel bars , by Ralph Stanley. Can anyone help me. Thanks
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rail road spike placement?
Any thoughts on where they should be placed in relationship to the fret. I have seen them in the middle and some close to the fret wire, Is there a way to determine where they should be placed?
thanks Dave
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mike gregory look alike contest?
mike gregory look alike contest?
Post your photo here.
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Low action, or let me beat this dead horse some more...
Hi Gang,
I started a thread yesterday to help define what "low" action is, specifically, how it is measured. If you didn't see the thread, I had a chance to strum Howie Bursen's banjo at the recent Banjo Camp North, and his "low" action and light strings felt great. (I wish I asked more questions when I had the chance)
It made me want to better understand my banjo. Also, I had a tiny, slight suggestion of a buzz at the 5th fret of the first string I wanted to eliminate.
I got a lot of info on my thread and got home last night and started by measuring my relief to find I was slightly under the recommended .015 at the 7th fret, when capo'd at the first and holding down the string at the 18th fret. (with a scoop, 18 is as high as I can go)
Feeling that I didn't have enough relief, I took a deep breath and turned my truss rod about a quarter of a turn, which seemed to bring my relief up to .015 and seemed to eliminate the tiny buzz.
Feeling like I had the skills of Dan Knowles, I decided to go further and measure my action, after removing the capo.
I was somewhat astonished to see that my action, measured from the bottom of the string to the top of a fret is essentially 1/16th of an inch from the 5th fret up to the 12th, and even at the 12th, it's only about the diameter of the string over the 1/16th line I'm using on the scale. I'd love to be more precise, but I do not have calipers, and I'm measuring by eye.
For all practical purposes or at least to my eye, it's very straight and really low, as I was being told that the 12th fret should be at least 1/8" to avoid buzzing.
Do these numbers make sense, am I measuring correctly? Before leaving for work today, I looked again, yep, essentially 1/16th all the way.
Thoughts? (and if you saw yesterday's post, thanks to all the guys that jumped in with great info)
Rich
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O Canada
For the Canucks out there.
Terry
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Free Cold Creek bluegrass concert in Orem Utah tonight 6/28
Cold Creek bluegrass band in concert at Central Utah Gardens at 7PM. Great band and it is free!
http://www.centralutahgardens.org/classes_events_concerts.aspx
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ear plugs for practice
I was reading an article last nite about using ear plugs while practicing to save your hearing. So now I wonder, How many use ear plugs to save their hearing?
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1932 TB-2 with Jim Yarborough neck
Has a flowerpot on the headstock like an F-5. What would be a reasonable price to ask? Good shape, no issues.
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How do I enter my Foggy Mountain Breakdown Video????
Hi Guys,
Ive just uploaded my video for the June FMB comp to my hangout homepage.
How do I enter it into the competition?
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Luthier Stuff
Hi all.
I need some help please. I am looking for a younger Luthier in the DFW area or close by who builds Bluegrass Instruments. Not to build me anything but to GIFT him or her a bunch of wood, bindings, parts, 4 or 5 partially built dobros, some tools, F5 and fiddle forms, miscellaneous stuff and a guitar/dobro side bending form.
I have built every type of Bluegrass instrument except an Upright Bass so it is a variety of stuff.
Now...I am doing this to help a luthier NOT to give someone a bunch of stuff to sell on Craigslist or Ebay and make money. Please don't try to take advantage of me.
Thanks, Fred .
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Don't know if you guys saw this cartoon
So here it is: http://bizarrocomics.com/files/2013/06/bz-panel-06-22-13.jpg
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Reno Banjo Band in 1981 - Who is who
may of interest
Joachim
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