I didn't see this video posted in this thread. You can barely hear the guitar but greta music anyway...
I didn't see this video posted in this thread. You can barely hear the guitar but greta music anyway...
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
That thing is huge! Plectrum, based off an L5? Or bigger?
Never get a great look at it, but my guess would be a Gibson TG 50.
They made a few of those with f holes. I've only seen them with dot markers though.
Condon was a banjo player so it probably was a plectrum neck.
Our fellow Cafe'r E Z Marc has a TG 50 w/f holes. Maybe if he reads this he can help us out.
Gary
vincit qui se vincit
Here is a better photo of Eddie Condon's guitar. He did play Plectrum, looks like maybe an L-12?
Eddie never played a solo, he was strictly rhythm. One of his great talents was managing to assemble great Jazz musicians and get them on stage or into the recording studio at the same time.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Eastwood Warren Ellis Signature Tenor guitar sighting courtesy of Eleanor Whitmore of The Mastersons.
c.1965 Harmony Monterey H410 Mandolin
"What a long, strange trip it's been..." - Robert Hunter
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
Think Hippie Thoughts...
Gear: The Current Cast of Characters
Kevin HJ Macleod
http://www.kevinmacleod.co.uk
Here is Rebecca Lovell of Larkin Poe on a '59 Martin Tenor (O17T?) with an instrumental cover of Jim Croce's "Time In a Bottle".
From the Larkin Poe Facebook page:
Meet "Little Baby"! A 1959 Martin Tenor guitar that I found at Norman's Rare Guitars out in Los Angeles. Goofy young love calls for a Jim Croce jam. (For the guitar-heads out there: the tenor is tuned in open A).
c.1965 Harmony Monterey H410 Mandolin
"What a long, strange trip it's been..." - Robert Hunter
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde
Think Hippie Thoughts...
Gear: The Current Cast of Characters
Here is one, any idea on the model?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG6HKnM8FFc
Looks like an Aria.
cranking out a few sets on the old National tricone tenor ....
Kevin HJ Macleod
http://www.kevinmacleod.co.uk
Not sure if this one has been posted yet. I like Taarka a lot, particularly this lineup with cello and upright bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stM35peY4mU
Here's Maz O'Connor wih her tenor guitar;
and just for her voice (not TG) a lovely song of her's "Derby Day"
and The Grey Selkie of Suleskerry (Ashbury TG in the foreground)
Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
Bansitar!!! I want one. Left-handed.
I haven't seen (noticed) this one posted here before www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQMRskHg-BYTo my knowledge, this is the first time I've seen Jerry Thomasson in a video and he is solid. But then, so is the rest of the band. (While he's not in the spotlight, his rhythm playing is as good as it gets.) Sorry - I tried posting this as an active video in situ, thanks to all the remarkable directions I've received. ... this is what worked for me.
Last edited by Dolamon; Jan-14-2015 at 11:59pm. Reason: Road Kill
Mandola fever is permanent.
Looks like it could be a Tiple. Originally from South America and made, in this country by Martin, Lyon and Healy among others.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
It looks like the guitar has six tuners at the head stock, but it is a four string neck, Did he have double courses on two of the strings?
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
I found this on his sons website - apparently he invented the banjoline - more famously produced by Rickenbacker.
This is a photo of the first electric banjoline prototype manufactured by the Vega Company circa the mid-1950s. My father and the producers at Dot Records wanted a different sound for the albums he was producing. This instrument was used in the production of six of the thirteen albums he recorded for the Dot label. Again, there are six strings, an octave fourth, a monotone third, and single first and second, along with two magnetic pickups and a vibrato arm.
And another pic of the vega
More info here
http://george-peabody.blogspot.com/2012/01/eddie-peabody-collection.html
Moistly
MdJ
And here is youtube transfer of a vinyl recording of eddie demonstrating the banjoline.
http://youtu.be/nWYbYBE6LLw
Thanks to Jim Bottroff- very cool.
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