Looks good, Epi MB-100 maybe, nice find. Oh, the wife might be right...:cool:
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Looks good, Epi MB-100 maybe, nice find. Oh, the wife might be right...:cool:
It is the flush fret with stars (a little extra decoration). I also had him put some optional mechanical friction tuners on, although I think
his standard friction tuners would have been fine.
Looks good. You are a good friend. You are all set for the BYB string band.
I do enjoy this banjo, although fretless, I don't find it hard to play (just that I could play better). The sort of haunting sounds you can get on slides with the combination of the 13" skin head and...
One my other favorite banjos is my Prust minstrel style fretless. Beautiful basic handmade instruments at a (little higher) reasonable cost. Made by Eric Prust in Washington State....
Yep, that is the one, not super thick padding but good enough for my uses...
Thanks for the pics and info. maki. Looks great. I have mine tuned to double C (gCGCD), a good tuning for a lot of old time clawhammer stuff. One reason I kept acquiring banjos (other than liking the...
Congrats on your new instrument. I still love mine...
You'll love the Backyard Banjo. I added the optional armrest to mine. Looks and sounds good.
I have a bari uke tuned DGBE but thinking of getting a second one to tune dGBE for clawhammer
and more...
+1000...I have a several (inexpensive or self made) nylon string banjos and they are great sounding. I play (at) clawhammer and old time both fretted and fretless, I also have a couple of steel...
I bought a Backyard Fireside kit a few years ago and really like it. Easy to assemble, light, sounds decent (almost a dulcimer like sound) and stays in
tune...in fact, I haven't played it in a while...
Hello Aaron, I have a Fender Mustang i v2 amp and play mostly guitar through it but, I have played my Lanikai S-TEQ tenor through it and think it sounds decent...of course I play mainly at home or at...
Wow, liked very much...wc
Enjoyed this very much, thanks...and Happy New Year!
Thanks Tommy, I really enjoyed your song. Now I am watching all your others...Here is a link to one of my favorite versions of Joe Hill, done by John McCutcheon, there is no video with this but the...
Thanks for the welcome. Now, I have to improve my ukulele skills--while having great fun...
Greetings, I've been lurking here for a while and have found tons of great threads, tabs, videos and other stuff. Great forums. I have a couple of inexpensive ukes, a Lanikai Tenor and an Oscar...
I bought a pack of 25 of the Grolsch beer washers for about $6.00 from ebay a year or so ago. They work very well.