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Post by john on Mar 14, 2008 14:34:30 GMT
Den var go`Jesper!!!! And dont P in a Storm
and the mandolin replaced the banjo as the most popular stringed instrument in America 1890th. and the guitar came in 3rd. and Martin made 96 tenor banjos between 1923-1926 and they did not know what to do with them, never appeared in a catalog and neither the Greeks nor the Romans found much use for instruments in the lute category and in the world of Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria the guitar lost its right to be regarded as a serious instrument and Frank Proffitt once said about Earl Scruggs..I`d like to be able to do it, and then not do it and folk music often brings out the best in people but the worst in guitars and talking bout guitars you have to go way back to the old Egypt and Gibson made a colossal bass banjo in 1931, bigger than a double bass and Gibson had a Style J-mando-bass , 150 dollars, in the mid 1920s
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Post by deleuran on Mar 14, 2008 15:38:51 GMT
Den var go`Jesper!!!! And dont P in a Storm Not against the wind anyway ;D
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Post by john on Mar 15, 2008 17:02:04 GMT
and Sam Russel was a note Dulcimer maker from Marion, Virginia and John Jacob Niles played the dulcimer at the Old Timers Day, July 4 in Brasstown , North Carolina and a Hommel is a plucked dulcimer from the Low Countries and Harmonik is a Belarusan accordion and Harp, spoon- in -the- cup -type, Baganda ennanga, found in The Great Lakes region of Africa and a Baka Aapa is a cane harp, Yaqui mouth bow and Bala is a xylophone with wooden keys fastened to a frame of gourds and bal folk is folk-dance from the Low Countries and Balabolo is Mandinka xylophone pattern and bal granmoun is Martinique old-time evening balls and Meizi is the period in Japan from 1868 to 1912 and melodic downdrift is basic melodic movement from high to low, characteristic of much African music and Cepung is men`s choral and dance form of Lombok and Ahuu are hanging bronze gongs of Ambon and Awash is Berber dance of the western High Atlas and Kungjung Umak is court music from Korea and Tecolote Owl whose hoot at dawn signals the end of Yoma social dance and Tegoto is extended instrumental interludes in syamisen or koto music and a Tebe is a wood jaw harp of Savu and the nkangala is a mouth-resonated musical bow cheers, John
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Post by john on Mar 16, 2008 11:15:40 GMT
and The Carter Family`s musical program were advertised as morally good and the Dixieliners may have been the best string band in country music history and Henry Ford sponsored many a fiddle contest and the George Dickel Distillery makes the best Tennessee whiskey and it is located in Tullahoma. and The Mother Church of Country Music hosted it`s last Opry on March 15, 1974 and Southern food at its best is the best food you can get in US and the Crook brothers were not brothers at all and old time guitar was finger picked and the first plectrum was made 70.000 years ago and the plectrum as we know it is designed by the great guitarist and crooner Nick Lucas and it was known as the pick with the crooning tone and it was made by D`Andrea and was given the number, 351 and today you know it as the Fender pick. and once you could get a banjo plectrum 2 inches long and Melba Montgomery is a hard core country singer, down to earth. and Thrillbilly Lovefest is something we should have here in Europe. and Gus Cannon was a jug band pioneer and he led one of Beale Streets most popular bands and his first banjo was fashioned from a bread pan, broom stick and a raccoon-skin head and he played the blues on his five-stringed sometimes using a bottleneck-slide cheers, john
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Post by john on Mar 24, 2008 8:37:02 GMT
and with the invention of minstrel shows in the 1840th the banjo boomed and mandolins were highly successful for Martin and Martin got into the banjo business in 1923 and got right back out in 1926 and do not chew your tobacco or gum while playing the mouth organ and Carl Sandburg had a bell-shaped folk guitar and Juan Carles y Amat has written a book with the title ..Guitarra Espanola y Mandola. Published at Genora in 1639. and it influenced guitar tutors for well over a century. and the Spanish vihuela is the guitar to end all guitars and Marlon Brando played the guitar in Tennesee William´s ..The Fugetive Kind and Bach´s Chaconne sounds far more naturel on guitar than on the solo violin and Youl Brynner was a very skilled guitarist and Martin made a guitar for the Japanese market. In Japan they thought it was a toy cheers, john
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Post by Ptarmigan on Apr 1, 2008 20:25:56 GMT
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Post by john on Apr 5, 2008 19:05:36 GMT
and a capo allows the banjo player , once out of tune in one key, to quickly be out of tune in any other key and a case protects your instrument from abuse, except when it is being played and it is a great place to put all your bumper stickers and tuning your banjo use a fiddle. Tap the fiddle on a hard surface and the universal banjo tune goes BBhHHBHHHBHHhHBHhhHHHBHhhHBhhhhhBBBBHHHHH WHERE h= hit it! H= hit it harder! B= BEAT IT!
From the Doc Stock Banjo Method
1990 The Daily Clogg news paper
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Post by john on Apr 6, 2008 18:07:16 GMT
and beer is the experienced banjo players favorite liquid to spill on the dance floor, dancers, and-or musicians. Sometimes it is filtered trough the kidneys first.
j. rosenstock
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Post by john on Apr 19, 2008 15:14:35 GMT
and tuning the banjo you can use a tuning fork: tap the fork on a hard surface. Listen to the clear bell-like tone. Make sure none of your strings duplicate this tone. and using an electric tuner: Tap the tuner on a hard surface. Continue as with method above. and a dog will follow a banjo player around and keep everyone uncertain as to which is responsible for the odour. and it takes hard work and talent to play the banjo fact: The only talent most banjo players have is a talent for avoiding hard work and you can make good mony playing the banjo fact:People will frequently pay you much better money to stop and your banjo will make you friend wherever you go fact: this is only true if you never go anywhere
and it is a well kept secret that there are only four tunes in old time music: the G tune, the A tune, the D tune and the C tune And it is an even better -kept secret that these four tunes sound exactly the same
Jim Rosenstock, The Daily Clogg 1990
cheers, John
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Post by john on Apr 23, 2008 18:52:35 GMT
and the first old time banjo tune recorded in Denmark was Elzics Farewell recorded by Fandango,
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Post by john on May 3, 2008 8:31:07 GMT
and the violin was in the days of the longhaired held a little above the chest. That was considered the best way to hold the violin for playing ease
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