Banjo Lap Steels?

Ryan Lunenfeld · Post by **Ryan Lunenfeld** » 26 Oct 2020 12:55 am

Has there been any Banjo lap steels? I was playing a buddy of mine's banjo the other day, and I started thinking about Picking one up, putting and changing the string height to be played more like a lap steel(all I know how to play in my finite days of playing). I got influenced as hell when playing a slide on it very lightly, picking the same way as a lap, and made some great sounds.

Has anyone combined the two? If it's just raised is it more a dobro then?... with a pickup would it make it a lap steel? I really love that resonant tone... it just sounds amazing.

Jouni Karvonen · Post by **Jouni Karvonen** » 26 Oct 2020 3:06 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJRs3tKnPPI

Jim Graham · Post by **Jim Graham** » 26 Oct 2020 3:27 am

Having seen this I am going to have a hard time stopping myself from putting an extended nut on my banjo.....oh who am I kidding, I'll post results here if it isn't a total disaster.

Noah Miller · Post by **Noah Miller** » 26 Oct 2020 3:56 am

I tried it once.

Joe Cook · Post by **Joe Cook** » 26 Oct 2020 5:53 am

I played upright bass in an acoustic band a few years back. We had a banjo player that would occasionally play slide banjo. I didn't really care for it but the audiences seemed to like it.

Peter Jacobs · Post by **Peter Jacobs** » 26 Oct 2020 6:38 am

I've played a little bit of slide banjo. Without sustain (and slide banjo rings less than fretted), it's an interesting, but gimmicky sound. But with effects (like phaser or chorus), it can give an interesting texture to a song.

Gene Tani · Post by **Gene Tani** » 26 Oct 2020 3:23 pm

I tried slide banjo with a bottleneck, it was kind of fun but Yeah, to get more sustain you can soften the head to about 86, thicker/heavier bridge and some other tricks i can't remember.

Steve Lipsey · Post by **Steve Lipsey** » 26 Oct 2020 3:48 pm

Just play your dobro with a bar made from a 1" round wood dowel and get the same sound for a lot less effort...I throw that into the set when it calls for banjo...I even rounded the end to make a perfect bullet bar for faux-banjo slants...

David Matzenik · Post by **David Matzenik** » 26 Oct 2020 3:49 pm

Ryan Lunenfeld wrote:Has there been any Banjo lap steels?

Sure, they're called fry-pans.

Kirk Francis · Post by **Kirk Francis** » 27 Oct 2020 8:45 am

who was it who said, like a pet monkey, a banjo seems a good idea at first?

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