<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 1/23/2003 10:06:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, briantowers@msn.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">...I believe Bud Scott could have been using his six string banjo, tuned as a<BR>
guitar.<BR>
He did this sometimes, as did Johnny St Cyr.<BR>
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In a message dated 1/23/2003 10:17:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, GoggiBri@exchange.ie.ml.com writes:<BR>
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No - Bud Scott used the 4-string tenor banjo - this is clearly visible in<BR>
the 1926 photos of King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators. He was a violinist<BR>
aswell.<BR>
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Whatever be the truth about Bud Scott's tuning/instrument on his banjo sides with Jimmy Noone,<BR>
I admire his tone on those recordings. To my ear, it sounds a little too low pitched to be tenor banjo.<BR>
Could be plectrum banjo or banjo with guitar tuning?<BR>
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Bob Sann<BR>
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