I'll never joke about banjo players again...

[archerscreek]

There's a video of Dave Harvey, the guy who runs the Gibson Bluegrass division or whatever it's called. In it he says Gibson is going to start making banjos again. Woohoo! (Not sure when the video was made, so maybe that's old news. Haha)

[tupper]

Anybody interested in tenor banjos should check out Eddie Peabody. He was not only a fantastic banjo player, he was a prominent musician. Check him out on wikipedia. He was given the title "King of the Banjo".

[L50EF15]

But Peabody was primarily a plectrum player, not tenor. The plectrum has the same scale length as a five string, but four strings on a narrower neck. If I remember correctly, the tuning is CGBD. The tenor is the short necked version, and it's tuned identically to a viola, CGDA (fifths). Irish music typically has a tenor tuned an octave below the mandolin, GDAE.

Harry Reser is often thought of as tenor player, but there's been a great deal of discussion about what he played on many of his sessions. Recent scholarship suggests that he played plectrum more than originally thought.

About four years ago, I went over to The Dark Side and took up banjo. I have a pair of Deering's, a tenor and a five string. The banjo is a wonderful instrument, with more possibilities than the stereotypes make out.

[stevo58]

I’ll put Cynthia up here again.

https://youtu.be/eeNV9xn_aB0

[frankmcr]

Ryan Cavanaugh plays Charlie Parker:

[str8blkcoffee]

Titanic String Band playing Classical Banjo