Banjo Players... Come Out of the Closet !
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- Ken Williams
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I played 5 string several years before I started playing steel. I took the thing out of the case a couple of weeks ago. That was the first time I had played it in over 15 years. I used to think I did alright but looking back I guess I wasn't that good. I feel that playing the banjo made it much easier to make early progress on steel, as I was already used to the picks and the idea of using my fingers to pick the strings.
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Guilty as charged. 1978 Gibson RB250. Bought it brand new in Denver, while going to Air Force tech school. Started out playing bluegrass music, but when I moved back to New Braunfels, I had to change to steel, just to play.
By the by, have you noticed that b0b is frightenly quiet about this thread? I admire his magnanimous display of self-control.
By the by, have you noticed that b0b is frightenly quiet about this thread? I admire his magnanimous display of self-control.
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Well, since this thread is still alive and b0b may need some inspiration to woodshed some more as Pete has suggested, here ya go...
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Been playing and teaching banjo for more than thirty years: Gibsons, 60's Fenders, Ome, now on my second Stelling. Sold my railing/clawhammer banjos to buy steels.
Also play an Ome "Irish" tenor: same scale as regular tenor (21 1/2 inch) but with heavier strings and tuned a whole octave lower (GDAE) than mandolin or fiddle but with the same fingering.
25 years with the same comedy/music group. I've heard every banjo joke there is, even all those transplanted from drummer jokes. Really feel sorry for those guys. Dennis
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Also play an Ome "Irish" tenor: same scale as regular tenor (21 1/2 inch) but with heavier strings and tuned a whole octave lower (GDAE) than mandolin or fiddle but with the same fingering.
25 years with the same comedy/music group. I've heard every banjo joke there is, even all those transplanted from drummer jokes. Really feel sorry for those guys. Dennis
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- J. R. McClung
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Okay. Since I let the cat out of the bag today at the club meeting, here goes:
I own and play a 1980 Gibson RB-250. I play Christian, cajun, country, celtic, and bluegrass, and often use it to accompany my wife who is a harpist.
I will even play the banjo, steel, and fiddle tomorrow at a Gospel music show down in Chichasha, Oklahoma.
Yep. Like Mike P. says....got one and aint afraid to use it!
I own and play a 1980 Gibson RB-250. I play Christian, cajun, country, celtic, and bluegrass, and often use it to accompany my wife who is a harpist.
I will even play the banjo, steel, and fiddle tomorrow at a Gospel music show down in Chichasha, Oklahoma.
Yep. Like Mike P. says....got one and aint afraid to use it!
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NEED A BOLEMIC AID?
CALL A BANJER PLAYER.......
JW......
P.S. BAMA CHARLIE HAD TO DRAG ME INTO THIS MESS........
TRADED A BANJER FOR SOME CARPENTIER WORK,, THE GUY TOOK OFF, HAD A HEART ATTACK, GOT FIRED FROM HIS JOB, HIS WIFE RAN OFF WITH HIS BEST FRIEND...NOW HE IS IN JAIL.....
NO THANKS ,, NO DAM BANJER FOR ME......
THE REASION I HAD THE BANJER IN THE FIRST PLACE,, IT CAME WITH A GUITAR FIDDLE DEAL I GOT INVOLVED IN......HAD A HARD TIME GETTING RID OF IT, THE BANJER, I MEAN.......
JW
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CALL A BANJER PLAYER.......
JW......
P.S. BAMA CHARLIE HAD TO DRAG ME INTO THIS MESS........
TRADED A BANJER FOR SOME CARPENTIER WORK,, THE GUY TOOK OFF, HAD A HEART ATTACK, GOT FIRED FROM HIS JOB, HIS WIFE RAN OFF WITH HIS BEST FRIEND...NOW HE IS IN JAIL.....
NO THANKS ,, NO DAM BANJER FOR ME......
THE REASION I HAD THE BANJER IN THE FIRST PLACE,, IT CAME WITH A GUITAR FIDDLE DEAL I GOT INVOLVED IN......HAD A HARD TIME GETTING RID OF IT, THE BANJER, I MEAN.......
JW
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N. 400
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I can only lay claim to being a banjo owner
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I'm probably more of a banjo owner than a banjo player. My repertoire on the instrument is quite limited, but I find quite some fun in doing things like "Tiny Broken Heart" in tempo 180
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Well, I have to add my two-bits worth. E. Blackburn, thank you for allowing me to see the plink, plink, plink of this so-called instrument. Back then it was known as mountain music and then it's changed to Bluegrass music and it's still the same. You can put all the lipstick on it you want but a pig is still a pig. Thank You. Yep you heard it here.
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