Guess that's how some folks feel that can't play both
A five string banjo player in a suit and tie........ that's just wrong....
I love hanging out with mandolin nerds . . . . . Thanks peeps ...
Earl didn't think so.
Much as I ought not to bring up this old chestnut, and with all due respect to banjo players whom I love and admire, there's this:
What do you call a banjo player in a suit and tie? The defendant.
--------------------------------
1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
There is always this advice:
http://www.whitetreeaz.com/vicious.htm
Only somebody who spends their time wandering about 'upside down' would post that,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
First thing we do, let's kill all the banjo pickers.
Both banjo players and lawyers have been known to drone on and on.
A quarter tone flat and a half a beat behind.
Breedlove Quartz FF with K&K Twin - Weber Big Horn - Fender FM62SCE
Wall Hangers - 1970's Stella A and 60's Kay Kraft
Whether you slow your roll or mash on it, enjoy the ride.
What do you get when a banjo player sees his shadow?
6 more weeks of Foggy Mountain Breakdown.
2010 Heiden A5, 2020 Pomeroy oval A, 2013 Kentucky KM1000 F5, 2012 Girouard A Mandola w ff holes, 2001 Old Wave A oval octave
http://HillbillyChamberMusic.bandcamp.com
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@hillbillychambermusic
All of this is makin' me drag out my Chuck Lee and some Soldiers Joy and Cluck Old Hen. Here's something for ya'll
It is said that banjo players spend half their time tuning their banjos and the other half playing them out of tune.
So chi sono.
It's Rumored, that after The Piper Rid Hamlin of Rats, the town mayor asked for him to do the same, again, and handed him a Banjo.
Maybe after that, He was Pied?
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
Old Sausage's comment reminded me of a line from the movie Caddyshack, " if I kill all the golfers ( banjo players ) won't they put me in prison? "
If the Scottish army was allowed to march to war with bagpipes in order to frighten away the enemy, shouldn't the American army march with banjos...?
Musica mulcet ad animam.
Musica placet aurium.
Musica aedificat corda
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
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
Bookmarks