Five String Banjo

[john bange]

there are many tunes that I like my 6 string over my 5 string. each has a place.
Bluegrass players scoff a little at my Vega but they tend to soften when they see how much I love to sit and listen to them play and wish I could do likewise.
I just don't like fingerpicks. I use my nails and can't keep up with the Cripple Creek crowd

[Tnfiddler]

Perfect Pitch/noun: The sound a banjo makes when it hits the bottom of a dumpster.……………...and lands on a dobro!! Geesh, I crack myself up!!

[macmanmatty]

I'd be mad if I actually understood your joke but I can't I'm Banjo player.

[Tnfiddler]

Originally Posted by macmanmatty

I'd be mad if I actually understood your joke but I can't I'm Banjo player.

All in good fun!

[john bange]

Originally Posted by Tnfiddler

All in good fun!

I was happy playing my guitars and ukuleles until one day I parked my car, unlocked and with the windows down for a while in an unsavory part of town.

[Tnfiddler]

Originally Posted by john bange

I was happy playing my guitars and ukuleles until one day I parked my car, unlocked and with the windows down for a while in an unsavory part of town.

Did someone take your guitars and ukuleles and leave a banjo in your car?

[Tnfiddler]

Being a bluegrasser for many years, I can’t help but pick on banjo players, but I wil say that if I could play another instrument, it’d be the banjo. It’s a great instrument and I have some good friends who are great banjo players and I’m envious of them. You can have a bluegrass band without a fiddle, but you can’t have one without a banjo!

[Tnfiddler]

One of the best videos ever!!

[henryp]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

There are three banjo players that impress me:

As long as we're making a list:
Béla Fleck
Steve Martin
Earl Scruggs

[PiousDevil]

Originally Posted by henryp

As long as we're making a list:
Béla Fleck
Steve Martin
Earl Scruggs

Noam Pikelny

[SpruceTop]

Tony Trishka

[Wade Hampton]

Cathy Barton


whm

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by Tnfiddler

Perfect Pitch/noun: The sound a banjo makes when it hits the bottom of a dumpster.……………...and lands on a dobro!! Geesh, I crack myself up!!

I don't find that at all funny!

I am a Dobro player.

The Correct quote is :

Perfect pitch is when a banjo is thrown into a (Ok - we'll say the American term "dumpster") and lands on top of an accordion/concertina)

I hate concertinas!

[grayback]

Dr. Banjo, Pete Wernick, of Hot Rize.

[SpruceTop]

Ralph Stanley, Don Reno, and Jerry Garcia were pretty good too.