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Originally Posted by Doubleneck
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All four of these clips are great. Very very nice.
The first and last really nicely illustrate how a 6 string banjo can transform a fingerstyle guitar-type arrangement. I would really enjoy playing one of these. Though I enjoy playing fast things on banjo sometimes, I have always thought that the banjo sound is most beautiful for slower pieces like in these two clips.
And Harvey Reid gets a nice clawhammer sound in the second clip.
The third clip is of a 6 string with a short 6th string like the 5th string of a 5-string banjo. I thought the comments following that clip were interesting:
"I got it from England on Ebay. 6 and 7-string banjos were fairly common there in the late 1800s. Some have made there way to the US, so you see them for sale every once in a while...."
So I guess my idea earlier in this thread of a 7 string banjo was not so crazy after all!
This also relates to Wade's interesting comments about all the innovation that went on with banjos in the past.
This has been an interesting thread.