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Zen Irish banjo (10) RE: Irish banjo 23 Jan 12


I've played tenor banjo in Irish and Scottish traditional music for around 30 years now and mandolin and guitar for even longer.

I play a Fairbanks-Vega 17-fret 1922 Style R Whyte Laydie tuned GDAE. The strings are nickel wound 42w 32w 22w 12 (because of the short scale) and generally a .60mm gauge tortex or ultex pick. I use a Fiberskyn 3 head which gives a more natural vellum-like sound without the humidity hassles and an Emerald Banjos hand carved ebony bridge.

My favourite players are probably Barney McKenna and Kevin Griffin. I don't know the Boston strings but find the Newtones good although I usually use D'Addario single guitar strings with the ball cut out.

Hope this helps.


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