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Old 07-04-2015, 07:07 PM
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As difficult as it is initially to play, it's kind of amazing that frailing or clawhammer was likely the most widely used style of playing 5-string banjo before the 5-string became better-known. Grandpa Jones, Stringbean and Pete Seeger were some of the more well-known players who exposed clawhammer/frailing to a larger audience.
Yes to all this.

By the way, here is some clawhammer tenor uke:

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Nice frailing on that uke! I am just now starting to play clawhammer banjo and hope to transfer the skill to ukulele.

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I have never heard of Chris Coole. Thanks for posting that video. Some of the cleanest sounding playing I have ever heard in clawhammer banjo. I'll have to check out that DVD.
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Old 07-05-2015, 10:22 PM
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Nice failing on that uke! I am just now starting to play clawhammer banjo and hope to transfer the skill to ukulele.
Ouch! That typo hurts....

Frailing on uke is fun, although crossover thumb work can be hard.
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Old 07-06-2015, 05:08 PM
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.....By the way, here is some clawhammer tenor uke.....
Great stuff, ukejon, and quite the revelation to me. It never occurred to me that the uke could be played this way.

If I ever get semi-competent on my clawhammer banjo right hand technique, my uke is going to be my next target!
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Old 07-06-2015, 06:24 PM
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Great stuff, ukejon, and quite the revelation to me. It never occurred to me that the uke could be played this way.

If I ever get semi-competent on my clawhammer banjo right hand technique, my uke is going to be my next target!
Bit of a story here. That is a 1920s Regal mandolin that I stupidly turned into a 5 string banjo (manjo?) 30 years ago by ripping off the mando neck and attaching a full-length banjo neck. Sounded pretty thin and also was very ill balanced (head heavy). Last year, I pulled the instrument down off the shelf after many years of it not being played and cut off the neck at the 5th fret to create a tenor uke scale. Then I decapitated the headstock at the nut and reattached it to the shortened neck--thus the instrument you see me playing. Doesn't sound particularly good with regular uke strumming and fingerstyle but sounds fantastic when played in a clawhammer style. No clue why this is, but this now is my clawhammer uke.
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Bit of a story here. That is a 1920s Regal mandolin that I stupidly turned into a 5 string banjo (manjo?) 30 years ago by ripping off the mando neck and attaching a full-length banjo neck. Sounded pretty thin and also was very ill balanced (head heavy). Last year, I pulled the instrument down off the shelf after many years of it not being played and cut off the neck at the 5th fret to create a tenor uke scale. Then I decapitated the headstock at the nut and reattached it to the shortened neck--thus the instrument you see me playing. Doesn't sound particularly good with regular uke strumming and fingerstyle but sounds fantastic when played in a clawhammer style. No clue why this is, but this now is my clawhammer uke.
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that was a very cool video!
thanks for posting, neat story on the instrument as well

1)steel string or nylon now?
2)would you mind if i post your video on the BHO-i think the clawhammer folks would highly appreciate seeing this?

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Thanks. Its a nylon string 17" scale tenor uke with a mando body.
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Old 07-06-2015, 07:06 PM
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...... Its a nylon string 17" scale tenor uke with a mando body.
I thought it was an odd looking uke, but little did I know. Very ingenious way to right a past wrong.

On second look it does look a bit wide at the nut....but so what? It sounds just fine played in that clawhammer style.
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