[Dixielandjazz] Banjitar - Swinginest Banjo Ever!

[dwlit at cpcug.org]

I play guitar-tuned "short scale" plectrum and am quite happy with it. The
neck is roughly halfway in length between the plectrum and tenor. That
makes the strings tight enough to get a "ring" most of the way along the
neck. It has the volume and percussiveness to drive a band, but there's
something I hear in correctly tuned tenors that's missing.

I've always found that guitar tuning on tenors produces mostly "thunk",
but I played one for a couple of sets last Monday and it was ok. The owner
said he used thicker strings, but I didn't get details.

The guitar tuning sure makes playing in any key easier!

--Sheik

>
> 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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> To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
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> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:06 PM
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>>
>> 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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