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Didja ever wonder??
Posted: 29 Nov 2001 12:06 am
by Antolina
Back before the age of electronics, banjo players invented all sorts of gizmos to project their sound and compete with other instruments. Tone rings, resonators and what have you. Then came the marvels of amplification and with nary a change they take these already too loud contraptions and stand two inches from the mic and then they whine that no one likes banjos????
Posted: 29 Nov 2001 1:54 pm
by Dave Horch
Q: Why do steel players require two 400 watt amplifiers on stage?
A: To drown out the banjo player.
But what if the steeler and the banjo picker are the same guy (like me)? Ponderous...
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Posted: 29 Nov 2001 3:14 pm
by Gary Lee Gimble
"But what if the steeler and the banjo picker are the same guy (like me)? "
Double the $ Dave!
Gary Lee
Posted: 29 Nov 2001 6:42 pm
by Donny Hinson
Sometimes....I think steelplayers are just very jealous.
After all, they've got foot pedals, knee levers,
wrist levers, and
four times as many strings.
And they
still can't keep up with even a
mediocre banjo player!
Yup! Reckon' that's it, all right.
If PSG is the "Cadillac of instruments", then the lowly banjo is the Ferrari.
Posted: 29 Nov 2001 7:55 pm
by JACK HEERN
I would rather have V.D. than a banjo-- You kin go to the doctor and git rid of V.D.
jp