[Dixielandjazz] Eddie Peabody, banjos

[Roy (Bud) Taylor]

This discussion on banjos got me to thinking.  A young man plays guitar for
our church services.  He just graduated with a degree in music from a local
college with strong arts programs.  I asked him if he had considered playing
a tenor banjo and he said he had not.  Part of the problem may be to learn
the new fingering associated with tenor banjo tuning *that is the same as
violin).  An advantage of this tuning is the wide range of the notes in the
chords compared with guitar.  Would it be possible to tune a banjo as if it
were a guitar but with the second and fourth string missing?  This would
give a similar range of notes, and may make the transition from guitar to
banjo easier.

This ought to get some lively dialogue going/

Incidentally, just to rain some equal scorn on my instrument, I was
wondering if anybody ever considered making a slide tuba??


-- 
Roy (Bud) Taylor
Smugtown Stompers Jazz Band
Rochester, New York
Traditional Jazz since 1958
"we ain't just whistling dixie!"