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Okay, but what kind of banjo?

14 Apr 08 - 01:33 PM (#2315291)
Subject: BS: Ok, but what kind of banjo?
From: Bee

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

So what kind of banjo is this cute little thing?


14 Apr 08 - 01:34 PM (#2315295)
Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Ebbie

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

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


14 Apr 08 - 01:35 PM (#2315301)
Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: wysiwyg

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~


14 Apr 08 - 01:38 PM (#2315309)
Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Desert Dancer

banjo uke?

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

~ Becky in Tucson


14 Apr 08 - 01:42 PM (#2315315)
Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: GUEST,lox

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.


14 Apr 08 - 01:44 PM (#2315319)
Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Ernest

Uke Banjo, yes.

Played by Roscoe Beeblebrox, perhaps?

Best
Ernest


14 Apr 08 - 01:59 PM (#2315345)
Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: McGrath of Harlow

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


14 Apr 08 - 02:05 PM (#2315355)
Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Bee

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.


14 Apr 08 - 02:44 PM (#2315401)
Subject: RE: BS: Okay, but what kind of banjo?
From: Escapee

It's a special model for close harmony accompaniment.