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17 Oct 08 - 10:10 PM (#2468816) Subject: Club 47 trailer From: Mary Katherine Really cool trailer for this past January's 50th anniversary celebration of Club 47 (now Club Passim). They identify everyone with captions, otherwise I'd suggest a game of "who do you recognize from the Sixties?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX9OJMbhtdw |
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17 Oct 08 - 11:26 PM (#2468859) Subject: RE: Club 47 trailer From: open mike what a great line up Peter Rowan was there in the intro. i once donated to an auction for club passim/. i won an answering machine message composed and recorded by greg brown--it was personalized!! people from teh greg brown chat list used to call just to hear the message! |
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18 Oct 08 - 11:58 AM (#2469182) Subject: RE: Club 47 trailer From: open mike perhaps no one has responded to this thread because they think it is about a mobile home? or because they dc not know that Club Passim was formerly known as club 47? i recommend watching this if only to see the banjo player at the end (Bill Kieth) tune his instrument as he plays ("bend" the notes by adjusting the tuners while the string is being played) |
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18 Oct 08 - 12:28 PM (#2469203) Subject: RE: Club 47 trailer From: PoppaGator What Bill Keith was doing was not twisting the "regular" tuning machines on the banjo. Banjos can be fitted with some kind of extra lever to sort of "toggle" the string back and forth between two preset notes. I'm pretty sure they're installed in addition to the regular tuning machines, not instead of them, and I think they may have been put on only two of the strings, although I'm less sure of that. You can notice that each retuned string always goes back precisely into correct tune. That wouldn't be possible if the player were actually retuning the strings at that speed. The tuning at which you start the tune is basically "locked in," and the supplementary device lets you stretch the string to a different note (at a precise interval higher, or maybe lower) and then let it return to its exact original tension. You used to see this "trick" performed all the time back in the folk-revival heyday, by players with appropriately-equipped banjos. I think those devices were originated by Earl Scruggs, but ~ not being a banjo player, just an observer ~ I don't know for sure. Use of those whatchamacallits was an absolutely mandatory feature of playing one of the most popular banjo-virtuosou tour-de-foprce numbers, "Orange Blossom Special." |
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19 Oct 08 - 11:14 AM (#2469923) Subject: RE: Club 47 trailer From: Midchuck Banjos can be fitted with some kind of extra lever to sort of "toggle" the string back and forth between two preset notes. Like these. I'm pretty sure they're installed in addition to the regular tuning machines, not instead of them, I think that may be true of the first ones - they just pushed the string sideways. The modern ones do replace the original tuners. ...and I think they may have been put on only two of the strings, although I'm less sure of that. Yes. They were set up to change the tuning from open G (DGBD) to open D (DAF#D), and back, so they were only needed on the 2nd and 3rd strings. P. |