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04-13-2009, 01:22 PM
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My Bart Reiter open-back banjo didn't have an armrest when I bought it. I bought an after-market one and it took all of 2 minutes to install.
It does make it a lot more comfy not having the brackets digging into your' arm.
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04-13-2009, 02:42 PM
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That's the great thing about banjos, it's so easy to do adjustments on them yourself (you take the whole thing apart in less than half an hour). They seem a lot easier to set-up for a normal lay person than a guitar, anyway, I think.
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04-13-2009, 02:45 PM
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I'm not a banjo player but I am a firm believer the banjo picking is best done in the closet!!
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04-13-2009, 03:00 PM
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04-13-2009, 03:09 PM
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I dabble with Irish tenor banjo.
I would add that if you have ever played a banjo in a closet, you won't do it a second time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tf7A13_Ex8
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04-13-2009, 03:19 PM
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I am out of the closet and love it. Banjos are great and fun to play. I have an eleven inch Recording King with a Whyte Ladie tone ring, a Mike Ramsey 12" with a brass tone ring, and a 13" Noel Booth Antebellum banjo with synthetic gut. Anyone that puts down playing a banjo is an idiot and should not be trusted.
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04-13-2009, 06:47 PM
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The banjo's a great instrument, although it's dangerous if someone without a good sense of timing gets their hands on one! I've played a five-string banjo my dad has a little: it's a cheap one by Vintage, and it sounds truly horrible, so I don't play it for long...
But I like hearing Earl Scruggs play in Doc Watson's garden. James
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04-13-2009, 10:36 PM
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I've played banjo for a little over 10 years now. It has never been my main instrument so I never spent a bunch of time practicing on it. But here lately, I've become really interested in learning more, I've started taking lessons, and I spend a fair amount of my time practicing. I play Scruggs style though...no clawhammer or anything.
I play an old Leo Fender Deluxe banjo like this except mine doesn't have any design on the inside of it. I'll probably put a white frosted head on it in the next week or two. Check out Matt Menefee with Cadillac Sky. Probably my favorite banjo player.
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04-14-2009, 08:30 AM
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I do some drop thumb clawhammer, have been for about 5 years now. It's taken up more of my practice time than guitar or mandolin over the last couple of years. And, since I play, I can now tell banjo jokes without ticking off all the banjo players.
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05-06-2009, 08:55 PM
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Do any of you guy's play guitar in open G tuning using banjo TABs? How does it sound?
I have never played banjo, but, I really love the sound. Especially when the group is playing an up-tempo country number and the banjo cuts in playing at break neck speed.
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05-06-2009, 10:29 PM
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Well lets see...my handle is "banjar"....
Yes I have 4 banjos and play clawhammer banjo, so I'm a downpicker. I can up pick if my life depends on it but I cant play bluegrass...I love the old bluegrass but not much of the new. Banjo gets about 1/8 the practice time of guitar, sadly..
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