Now, THAT'S a banjo
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Now, THAT'S a banjo
Jessie posted in my Concertina thread that she was getting an Autoharp soon which led me to do a search to the maker's (Orthey) site which led to this link about the Stoneman Family:
http://www.fmp.com/orthey/stoneman.html
Which is quite interesting. If you scroll down a bit there is a picture of them and one of the boys is seated behind a huge banjo. Does anybody know anything about those or how it sounds?
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http://www.fmp.com/orthey/stoneman.html
Which is quite interesting. If you scroll down a bit there is a picture of them and one of the boys is seated behind a huge banjo. Does anybody know anything about those or how it sounds?
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DCrom wrote:Sort of like a lawyer wearing a shark costume?MarkB wrote:Nah, that's a bodhran disguised as a banjo!
Notice that that great big banjo seems to have led Jim to the string bass.
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Scotty became one of the all-time hot fiddle players and played some great stuff with the Kentucky Colonels. He could completely keep up with Clarence White.
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I respectfully request that you immediately cease making any and all malicious and unflattering comments against sharks. Thank you.DCrom wrote:Sort of like a lawyer wearing a shark costume?MarkB wrote:Nah, that's a bodhran disguised as a banjo!
Attorneys, on the other hand, are fair game!
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I remember a lot of them real well. I have played a little in a back lot session with Jimmy and Scot. I don't remember that banjo though. When I knew him Jimmy played string bass. There used to be a country music contest near Mannassas, VA in the 50s and 60s time period. Scot won top fiddler and the stonemans top band every year. A group I was friends with came in second to them one year. I hate to think that was over 40 years ago.
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That's a BMD(*)
Actually, probably some kind of bass banjo. Check out this one:
http://www.xstrange.com/bassbanjo.htm
Scary.
(*)Banjo of Mass Destruction
Actually, probably some kind of bass banjo. Check out this one:
http://www.xstrange.com/bassbanjo.htm
Scary.
(*)Banjo of Mass Destruction
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once upon a time, string instrumrnt makers made corresponding equivilants of the violin family. mandolin, mandola, mandocello, mandobass. and some oddball pairings such as banjolins, banjo-ukes (which were the soprano voice of a banjo quartet) cool stuff.
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Mandocellos are some of the coolest sounding things out there. I know an excellent Jazz duet who play soprano sax and mandocello mostly (sometimes with Bass and drums as a quartet). Very very good, and a great sound. Geoff Goodman and Chris Hirson. (Great people, too.)oleorezinator wrote:once upon a time, string instrumrnt makers made corresponding equivilants of the violin family. mandolin, mandola, mandocello, mandobass. and some oddball pairings such as banjolins, banjo-ukes (which were the soprano voice of a banjo quartet) cool stuff.
http://www.jazzrecords.com/musicians/g_g_disc.htm
Their first one, Before & After is my favorite.
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Are there soundclips anywhere?Bloomfield wrote:Mandocellos are some of the coolest sounding things out there. I know an excellent Jazz duet who play soprano sax and mandocello mostly (sometimes with Bass and drums as a quartet). Very very good, and a great sound. Geoff Goodman and Chris Hirson. (Great people, too.)oleorezinator wrote:once upon a time, string instrumrnt makers made corresponding equivilants of the violin family. mandolin, mandola, mandocello, mandobass. and some oddball pairings such as banjolins, banjo-ukes (which were the soprano voice of a banjo quartet) cool stuff.
http://www.jazzrecords.com/musicians/g_g_disc.htm
Their first one, Before & After is my favorite.
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Bloomfield wrote:Mandocellos are some of the coolest sounding things out there. I know an excellent Jazz duet who play soprano sax and mandocello mostly (sometimes with Bass and drums as a quartet). Very very good, and a great sound. Geoff Goodman and Chris Hirson. (Great people, too.)oleorezinator wrote:once upon a time, string instrumrnt makers made corresponding equivilants of the violin family. mandolin, mandola, mandocello, mandobass. and some oddball pairings such as banjolins, banjo-ukes (which were the soprano voice of a banjo quartet) cool stuff.
http://www.jazzrecords.com/musicians/g_g_disc.htm
Their first one, Before & After is my favorite.
Blast! Our company's IT/Decency Police group is working overtime, I see. They've filtered this site and won't let me access it. I guess this means those mandocello they're showing are nude???
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They still do...oleorezinator wrote:once upon a time, string instrumrnt makers made corresponding equivilants of the violin family. mandolin, mandola, mandocello, mandobass. and some oddball pairings such as banjolins, banjo-ukes (which were the soprano voice of a banjo quartet) cool stuff.
In Hobgoblin in London I've seen many weird and wonderful variations on the plucked string & fretted fingerboard pattern. I'm probably oversimplifying, but once you can play one fretted string instrument, you're halfway towards playing any others. It's only a question of the tuning and the fret spacing that makes it different.
I've also seen sites offering all the variations between fiddle & double bass, and even a soprano fiddle!