[Dixielandjazz] [Trombone-l] Trombone inspirations

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

I have found the best and most efficient way to tune a banjo is quite 
simple and greatly improves the sound quality as well:

Remove the Strings, and the neck, from two of them, then mount them on 
a timbale stand and play them with drum sticks, a great improvement 
upon an ancient rhythm instrument that was obviously before it's time.  
:))


I know I know here comes the hate mail from our Banjo buddies.  :)) 
sorry guys & gals just can't forget those politically incorrect Banjo 
jokes.  :))

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: paul.edgerton at eds.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] [Trombone-l] Trombone inspirations

   > Aren't banjos and guitars tuned in the factory before they are
despatched?

Now that you mention it, I've never seen a banjo with a spatch on it.  I
only wish the tuning lasted as long as the de-spatching.

Luckily for all the tetracordomembranophonists out their none of their
prized instruments were dispatched at the factory.  That chore becomes
the responsibility of aerophonists everywhere.

Oh, one more small point, string instruments actually do have moving
parts: the strings themselves and the tuning machines used to adjust
their tension, plus the resonating surfaces of the body.

-- Paul (was that another chicken joke?) Edgerton

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