I love my banjo because ...
Let's be honest. Banjos are silly. In a civilised world they would never have been invented. They're limited to certain musical styles unlike guitars and pianos. They have 4.5 strings. They are tricky...
View ArticleResonance, wood block rims
The rim/ tone ring combination is all important in the construction of the banjo, the resonance achieved by the two combined is the magical combination. For the sake of argument using a wood block rim...
View ArticleBuying my first banjo
Hi all, I have just joined the forum and would like to ask what I will need to begin learning to play the tenor banjo? First of all a reasonable beginners kit, excessories ect. I have been learning...
View ArticleDecoding serial numbers on Rich & Taylor?
Does anybody know the pattern Rich & Taylor used for their serial numbers? Can you tell the year of manufacture from this number. All the ones I have seen use a four digit DASH two-three digit...
View ArticleWounded Warrior Project Update
This is a link to my last update which has a link to the original thread on this project: http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/223431 The project is back in full swing. Two of the original WW...
View ArticleSABOTOOGIE!!!
GAWD!,....Snow...anticahpation mode here....Better half.....stocked up...on fridgitator..suplies...I'm settin meself up ta make...Chipped Beef on...
View ArticleYou Can Take Your Time (in Coming Back to Me)
I should have tried this one a couple frets higher.. it gets awful low for me in a few spots. Here's You Can Take Your Time as heard on either Chris Jones' Blinded by the Rose, or the Boxcars.
View ArticleEnoch Dobson
Hi I was surfing around at work, and was checking out the banjos at smakula, and noticed a post regarding the Encoh Dobson saying Kevin was no longer allowing retailers to sell the banjo, so I went...
View ArticleRough morning....
Yep. Picked up a serious bug...the chest/cold/flu type. The plans are to rest and recuperate. Must have picked this one up over to the church luncheon. Several folks have this. I wish that they had...
View ArticleI'm gonnah git ...us..
Ah couple of lottery tickits...Guess it's up tah.....32 Million...Hey.. $4 ...bucks fer ah little hope..ta have...almost eenuff fer retirement..It's...bout as sound of an investment...that is out...
View ArticleNew York Town
After the Memphis Minnie song Frisco Town. I hope she's not rolling in her grave -- it should be a better recording -- this is what you get when you do two tracks singing into the computer. In any...
View ArticleIF....you have...
DIED...AFTER USIN....AH...PAIN KILLER PATCH....CALL.....our ..lawyers..........NOW..!Do.ya ever git tired prahmotional.....suing..?
View ArticleSad news
Another one of those local, unheraled, could have been a pro if he chose to, banjo pickers was called home to Heaven yesterday. Herman Gill, from the Chase City, Va area, died unexpectedly at his...
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banjo teacher
I took all the good advice here and decided i had better get a teacher especially as i want to switch over to clawhammer. Anyway, first lesson is next wednesday and i'm really looking forward to it....
View ArticleIntonation question
Got a new goldtone CC tenor. When I tune it up (CGDA) the C string on the 7th fret will be in tune with the D open but the D on the 5th fret will be off from the open C and so on across the strings....
View ArticleIt'sAh...bean..
Soup kindah day..Snow food..Gonnah make it real ...hot..n..spicey..Lottsah..jalopinos..onions...n...GARLIC!Bacon....too..
View ArticleSome Grand Ol Opry video with interesting banjo
If your day is cloudy or careworn, this ought to cheer you up. Stay through Grant Turner's Lusianne tea commercial and see what Roy Acuff brings to the microphone. After the "fancy banjo" number,...
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