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Banjo!



Banjo!



Banjo!

There. I said it!

I have a banjo. I got is as payment for some luthier repair work I did about 25 years ago. It has spent about 25 years in its case, because every 5 years I get it out and "play" (ploink) it for 5 minutes, and that convinces me that it belongs in its case.

What kind of EVIL being invented this monstrosity, the banjo! (probably invented bagpipes too)

This morning, my 8-year old daughter got my banjo out, and tortured me for a few minutes. Every word that went through my head cannot be used on the OLF!

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Actually the evil do-ers who invented bagpipes for music, also invented golf for enjoyment - go figure.

As for the banjo inventor, that guy is also responsible for mud buggy racing, tv wrasslin', coon huntin', transport rig racin', monster trucks, movin 'shine across a state line, and the grade 3 corriculum in 6 states.

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

The banjo was derived from an African instrument brought to America by slaves. The fifth string was added by Joel Sweeney around 1860 in Appomattox County, Virginia.

It's too bad that it has such a negative connotation to many people who have only been exposed to the hillbilly side of it. There are some beautiful classical pieces and many jazz pieces played on the banjo.


Joel Sweeney

Ron

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Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

Banjo jazz eh ... well, just goes to show there is something for everybody.

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Tony Karol
www.karol-guitars.com
"let my passion .. fulfill yours"

Take it easy, Hesh!  Remember, do not wear your feelings on your shirt sleeves. 

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Wow, you guys sound like you have never heard banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck.
One of the best musicians on the planet,IMO.

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In Markham,Virginia

[QUOTE=JNixon] Wow, you guys sound like you have never heard banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck.
One of the best musicians on the planet,IMO. [/QUOTE]

I second that one. Stomping Grounds is one of my favourite songs of all time.

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Bob Garrish
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Oh, and the bagpipes are derived from much earlier instruments from the middle east. The infamous Scottish version is the one that always seems to get the publicity, but there are many others extant. My wife plays the Northumbrian version which has no mouth piece (rather like a smaller version of the Irish pipes) and there is no sweeter sound in the world.

I was taught banjo by Peggy Seeger in the sixties, but I only admit to it rarely!



Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

I have Bela Fleck CD's. He's an awesome musician (even if the timbre of banjo does not lend itself to crossover into every genre of music, IMHO.)

I'm also descended from Celts (8 Irish great-grandparents!), and can certainly be charmed by the haunting and beautiful sound capable of coming from the pipes.

I'm picking on banjo and bagpipes, trying to twist the F-bomb thread into humor. With the right musician and the right material, any instrument can sound wonderful. Some instruments do seem to sound worse than others in the hands of a rank beginner - bagpipes and banjo included. I'll bet we have all heard the sounds emanating from a violin in the hands of an untalented and unschooled beginner with a tin ear, and have had to close a window, cross the street, or run away.

Dennis

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Dennis Leahy
Duluth, MN, USA
7th Sense Multimedia

Believe it or not, I know Billy Retton, who was the "banjo kid" in the movie "Deliverance". (as pictured with Hesh above). That movie was filmed at talullah gorge, Georgi, which is in the same county where I lived for 10 years. Another unbelieveable thing is that the doctor in the final scenes, was actually my family doctor for years. He passed away from an abdominal anurisim a few years back. Both guys are really good people!

as far as a Banjo is concerned, I owned one for years, but sold it a couple of years ago. I still like to hear aq good bluegrass banjo player and as far as I know right now I think tha Bela Fleck is about as good as they come. 

ok, so now I dropped the "B" bomb several times, all in one conversation

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Ken H

Banjo? That's as bad as the "F-bomb"!

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[quote=DennisLeahy]Banjo[/quote]

BANHIM!   

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Ban Who? Oh Ban Jo! 

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] [QUOTE=WaddyT] Take it easy, Hesh! Remember, do not wear your feelings on your shirt sleeves.
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Whats this thread all about?

Colin you look like a young Paul Simon. [/QUOTE]

Hesh, comparing an English folk enthusiast to Paul Simon is about as deep an insult as it is possible to make!

After he came here copied note for note, word for word from Martin Carthy, his version of the centuries old folk song Scarborough Fair, then went back to America and COPYRIGHTED it! He is persona non grata!

By the way I only ever played, old style banjo ala Pete and Peggy, Can't stand that Bluegrass, worse even than Country, (how's that for contoversial ).

Colin

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I don't believe in anything, I simply make use of a set of reasonable working hypotheses.

Petal Steel is also in the banjo catagory. Dobro, please

[QUOTE=Colin S]
Hesh, comparing an English folk enthusiast to Paul Simon is about as deep an insult as it is possible to make!

After he came here copied note for note, word for word from Martin Carthy, his version of the centuries old folk song Scarborough Fair, then went back to America and COPYRIGHTED it! He is persona non grata!

Colin [/QUOTE]

Hi-hi, you are just sore because you look (or used to look) like him!

Great picture by the way, that's the one that gave me the idea for this thread a while back. I'm sorry we never got any of Lance in his "hair band" period in there, I'm sure there are other gems out there too. Perhaps it's time for another, hmmm?

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Rian Gitar og Mandolin

[QUOTE=Colin S]Can't stand that Bluegrass, worse even than Country, (how's that for contoversial ).

Colin [/QUOTE]

And to think I actually thought highly of you Colin!
Hmph!

At least you still like Mahogany.




Bela Fleck......... a friend of mine at work is good friends with Bela's girlfriend and they've even stayed with him while up here visiting this past year.
They sure can play!

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Only badly."