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Subject: RE: Tech: Eight string tenor banjos From: nickp Date: 19 Dec 14 - 06:31 AM From personal bruising I can confirm the adjustment fittings are great but do somewhat dig into a less than concave stomach! |
Subject: RE: Tech: Eight string tenor banjos From: Jack Campin Date: 18 Dec 14 - 01:29 PM The neck adjustment in the instrument Les linked to is clever - should be much smoother than the adjustment screw on a cumbus. Unfortunately it couldn't easily be adapted to the cumbus, since a cumbus has a spun aluminium body covering the back. |
Subject: RE: Tech: Eight string tenor banjos From: Will Fly Date: 18 Dec 14 - 01:04 PM I've played a converted Hofner guitar - turned into an 8-strings mandola - and it was incredibly loud. As Vic says - overpowering at a session! Here it is in action |
Subject: RE: Tech: Eight string tenor banjos From: Jack Campin Date: 18 Dec 14 - 12:59 PM A cumbus is a 12-string fretless banjo. I've got two of them: http://www.campin.me.uk/Music/Cumbus/ Yep, they're loud. |
Subject: RE: Tech: Eight string tenor banjos From: nickp Date: 18 Dec 14 - 12:40 PM Interesting, having once had a Weymann 4 string which was the weapon of choice in the Philadelphia Mummers parades - no relation to UK mummers! This would certainly have been a mighty beast for the marching bands playing Golden Slippers! |
Subject: RE: Tech: Eight string tenor banjos From: Les in Chorlton Date: 18 Dec 14 - 12:32 PM Thanks Vic, sounds almost pornographic and so, so desirable ............. |
Subject: RE: Tech: Eight string tenor banjos From: Vic Smith Date: 18 Dec 14 - 11:58 AM I had one once. It was bloody, bloody loud. Everyone complained that it dominated the session and no-one else could hear themselves, so, reluctantly, I sold it. It was also very heavy with a steel rod inside the neck to stop in warping. |
Subject: Tech: Eight string tenor banjos From: Les in Chorlton Date: 18 Dec 14 - 10:57 AM I have much enjoyed playing mandolas and the tenor banjo. I can't think why this has not occured to me before. Does anybody play an eight stringed tenor banjo - ie tuned in pairs like the mandolin family? Look, here is a really nice one: |
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