[Dixielandjazz] Banjitar - Swinginest Banjo Ever!

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

I played a six string banjo for awhile and I personally didn't like the 
sound very much.  The low strings if played in a chord muddy up the sound. 
If you can't use the low strings then what is it good for?   The low strings 
on the acoustic guitar are quite mellow which is not a  characteristic of 
banjos.  It's just not the same instrument and adding two strings doesn't 
improve anything.

I Most people who play guitar first simply tune the banjo with guitar 
tuning.  I think this is a mistake to try this.  I think you can do a lot 
more with banjo tuning but I suppose if you were a very good guitar player 
it might not make a difference.  I got to where I could play just about any 
chord but doing melody and the chords at the same time just escaped me and I 
was never able to do very well with melody/chords.  I think I went about as 
far as I could go using Guitar chords.
Larry
StL
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Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Banjitar - Swinginest Banjo Ever!


>
> I don't think you will hear much from purists and historians since Johnny
> St. Cyr. always played six stringed banjo-guitar; i.e.; with Louis 
> Armstrong and
> others.  And Danny Barker went to that, correct?  More what I've been
> hearing is that banjitars often don't sound as good as what you are 
> experiencing.
> Happy to hear it's working great for you as well as info  that the
> five-string working for Dave.  For the curious there a  various videos of 
> banjitar
> playing on YouTube.
> Ginny
>
> In a message dated 12/3/2007 9:37:12 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> BillSargentDrums writes:
>
> Now I know you purists and historians aren't gonna dig this one doggone 
> bit,
> but for the rest of you guys who just dig a really swingin', great 
> feeling,
> full-sounding rhythm section . . . I think this may be where it's at. 
> And, it
> solves a quality personnel issue in some  cases.
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