banjo build...

Dad2FourWI · May 12, 2015, 10:35:48 PM

QuoteBeen playing banjo now for a few months. Love it.

Hmmmm, I have been playing for over a year and while I enjoy it.... no one is asking me to play! :D :D :D :D

Last Spring, I was playing outside and black bear came right up to the house! (yes, we life in the woods!) I made some real noise with that banjo, trying to scare that bear away... but alas, it came back later and enjoyed some chicken!!! Well, I guess the bear enjoyed my playing.....

Great job on "picking" it up so quickly (pun intended!!!!!) ;D ;D

-Dad2FourWI

zopi · May 13, 2015, 05:18:18 AM

When I started the cats would evacuate now they are just tired of Foggy Mountain Breakdown...

Just got the message yesterday, we have another engagement coming up. It is great for these kids to get up on stage.
I just enjoy the opportunity to inflict aural pain and torture people with my weird hats.

Channeling Leroy Troy and Uncle Dave Macon.

pineywoods · May 13, 2015, 10:21:18 AM

Zopi, in another post, you mentioned a daughter playing a dulcimer. You need to build her one of these...

Called a hammered dulcimer, lineage goes back to bibical times. Not many people play them, it has a very distinctive sound..

zopi · May 13, 2015, 10:27:30 AM

I may eventually build a hammered dulcimer, but she plays a mountain dulcimer..I am going to build one of those soon.

beenthere · May 13, 2015, 10:55:57 AM

The hammered...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcRdeJ5kks

The mountain..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UurHbXwVo04

pineywoods · May 13, 2015, 11:31:08 AM

Quote from: beenthere on May 13, 2015, 10:55:57 AM
The hammered...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcRdeJ5kks

The mountain..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UurHbXwVo04

WOW, goosebumps. 8) I built this thing and just gave up learning to play it...Maybe there's hope yet...

Dad2FourWI · May 13, 2015, 12:08:24 PM

Hey great links!! - I enjoyed them both!

Thanks for sharing ;D

-Dad2FourWI

zopi · May 13, 2015, 12:11:56 PM

I may just get hammered and build a dulcimer.

WDH · May 13, 2015, 08:31:35 PM

What is the difference between a dead possum in the road and a banjo? There are skid marks in front of the possum.

A Gentleman is someone who can play the banjo, but chooses not to.

;D

POSTON WIDEHEAD · May 13, 2015, 09:01:57 PM

Quote from: WDH on May 13, 2015, 08:31:35 PM
What is the difference between a dead possum in the road and a banjo? There are skid marks in front of the possum.

A Gentleman is someone who can play the banjo, but chooses not to.

;D

....and they'd be skid marks in my Goat drawers if a Banjo ran out in front of me.

zopi · May 14, 2015, 06:15:47 AM

Difference between a banjo and a trampoline...Take off your shoes before jumping on a trampoline.

Know the difference between an F type mandolin and an A type?

F type burns longer.

rasman57 · May 16, 2015, 03:59:39 PM

Paddle FASTER......I hear BANJOs! (Old Saying)

zopi · May 16, 2015, 09:32:08 PM

Told a prosecutor friend of mine today that a local murderer should have been sentenced to be beaten to death with a cheap asian banjo...

Dad2FourWI · May 16, 2015, 10:29:35 PM

My banjo "tutor" (a 30 army vet Col) gave me an article where a man beat his wife with a banjo (no joke) and the banjo broke and he had to grab another to finish the job....

There are some "interesting" folk out there....

I grew up with my grandpa playing banjo while my dad and I worked in the farm... it was great to hear that "twang" as you were working away..... and of course, Grandpa got out of a LOT of work too!!!!

... but it was hard to be angry when a banjo was being played.... it all just "felt" right! That is why I wanted to start playing last year... and now my daughter has passed me by like I was standing still....

So, again here I am.... while I work outside in the barn or yard, I am listing to banjo music.... but it's not me....

Still, hard to feel 'mad' when there is banjo music playing!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

-Dad2FourWI

zopi · May 17, 2015, 11:31:18 AM

I had heard that story.
Played the usual jam spot/show past night...I usually do not play too loud nor am I amplified...so only a few folks can really hear me. Last night had a mandolin player I had never set with before, so rether than try to sort out one of the 15 thousand guitarists all doing their own thing I patched on to the lead guitar and mandolin and surfed along on them...dude turns to me.."that sounds AWESOME!"

That glow off to the east last night about ten oclock was me.