Banjo question

[sonar1]

I would like to add banjo to a couple of our songs. I have a 5 string but cannot play anything on it. I have tried and failed over and over. I am thinking of buying a 6 string but am clueless. Do any of you have any insight? Preferably an acoustic electric....$500 or close.

I’ve had a couple six-string banjos. Kept getting orchestra pit calls that required banjo.

Of the cheap ones, I had a Dean I liked, and a Gold Tone that was OK.
Of the nice ones I had a nice Deering that was tits, and a Deering Goodtime that was OK. They all sounded the same in the final analysis. The Dean had a humbucker under the head. Only a high zoot Deering with piezo AND magnetic pickups actually will pass for a banjo at volume. The Eagles just mic’d up whoozee’s 5-string.

After I quit pit work and moved I offed whatever aux instruments I had. Guitar is enough. I like guitar. Bass, banjo ukulele, mandolin etc. I never got much facility on enough to actually like. Just tools for specific jobs.

You can also just weave a 1” strip of paper through the strings on your guitar, back up against the bridge on the playing side to suffice for one song, if that’s all that’s required.

 

[TheX]

real banjo players.

Is that like professional participators?

 

[efstop]

To the title of the thread: "Banjo?" is a good question, but "Banjo!" is not a good answer.

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

I would like to add banjo to a couple of our songs. I have a 5 string but cannot play anything on it. I have tried and failed over and over. I am thinking of buying a 6 string but am clueless. Do any of you have any insight? Preferably an acoustic electric....$500 or close.

Why the f... don't you stick to music?

 

[efstop]

"Banjo music" is an oxymoron, wot?

 

[MikeyTheCat]

So three guys walk into a bar, a banjo player, an accordion player and a bag piper.
The banjo player says, “hey bar keep, we’ll have three beers and a Montreal Chaser”

Don’t ask me the punchline because I got the hell out of there.

 

[sonar1]

Another tough room

 

[CB91710]

 

[edro]

I’m gonna have bad dreams....

 

[sonar1]

I’m gonna have bad dreams....

Deliverance?

 

[catawompus]

To make all the banjo haters cringe: My mid-eighties one of a kind Deering Golden Era...

 

[Marshall & Moonshine]

I like banjo.

 

[fleahead]

What flies farther; a banjo or a clarinet






















No one cares either way

 

[CB91710]

 

[MikeyTheCat]

To make all the banjo haters cringe: My mid-eighties one of a kind Deering Golden Era...

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I’m guessing the boots came with it?

It is a beauty.

 

[Uncle Vinnie]

If this works, you can avoid all that bother.

You Can Now Make Your Electric Guitar Sound Like A Banjo (mixdownmag.com.au)