Okay, but what kind of banjo?

Subject: BS: Ok, but what kind of banjo?
From: Bee
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 01:33 PM

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/04/13/banjo-player/

So what kind of banjo is this cute little thing?

Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 01:34 PM

Isn't that what we used to call a piccolo banjo?

More to the point: which head is singing? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 01:35 PM

Had some conversaton in Music threads if i recall right, about the tiny 4-string ones, but never saw one with a pan on it.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 01:38 PM

banjo uke?

I note that this is posted there in the categories of "Dark Humor, Racist"

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 01:42 PM

I've seen two of these banjo's and played both.

I don't know if I've been unlucky, but the ones I've played have been a nightmare to tune. One touch and the tone sroings wildly in either direction. What's more, the pegs need to be pushed in to hold their tuning once they have been loosened and turned, during which process "sproing" they fly out of tune again.

Two heads would definitely be a minimum requirement.

Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Ernest
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 01:44 PM

Uke Banjo, yes.

Played by Roscoe Beeblebrox, perhaps?

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 01:59 PM

Or "banjolele" - as used by George Formby - here he is playing Fanlight Fanny, the Frowsy Nightclub Queen"

Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Bee
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 02:05 PM

Desert dancer, I could certainly regard it as 'classist' but 'racist'?

And thanks for the suggestions as to what the banjo is: I've never seen a little thing like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Escapee
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 02:44 PM

It's a special model for close harmony accompaniment.