Banjo # 21 | Show & Tell
Added 2019-11-27 19:30:17 +0000 UTCaple neck (red oak dowel), maple snare shell, Jamaican goat hide (from Jeff Menzies), rosewood tuners, deer bone nut, submerged cherry tailpiece, antique mahogany bridge, "La Bella No. 17" nylon strings, black walnut stain, flax oil, beeswax.
I've kept each of your letters
Hold them closely to my heart,
But this ring that you gave me darling
From my hand shall never part.
(gDGCD, relative)
Comments
I commented on a different post about rim diameter × rim wall thickness × depth of rim. On your video of the 1840's Boucher verses the reproduction Boucher. I have a few questions/ observations. It's hard to gauge but the neck heel looks to be about half the rim depth. Also I think that I figured out how the dowel is inserted into the neck but this is a longer conversation more appropriate for an email conversation.
Robert Britten
2023-03-12 00:43:15 +0000 UTCApparently early music afficionados consider anything pre-1800 to be "Early." We know that gourd banjos were being played all over the American colonies by 1740.
Clifton Hicks
2023-01-28 13:52:41 +0000 UTCIt's so interesting how "Early music" can mean such different things. Could mean medieval music, early polyphony, baroque, rococo, whatever. And it can also mean early American music.
Jacob Carroll
2023-01-28 07:05:20 +0000 UTC
