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To: Fighting Irish
As a bass player, I've always been curious to hear a banjo tuned like guitar.

I might bid on this hoping that the mojo won't work.

2 posted on 10/30/2005 5:25:52 PM PST by perfect stranger
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To: perfect stranger

I'm a bass player too....and I suppose you can tune a banjo anyway you want.

...yah just can't tune a fish.




(I'm sorry.....)


3 posted on 10/30/2005 5:31:14 PM PST by Fighting Irish
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To: perfect stranger
Actually, tuning a banjo like the last 4 strings of a guitar is frequently done by guitar players lookin' for a gig as a banjo player....kinda like a ukulele. But what it does is change the note sequences (inversions) in the chords and IMO, it sounds like crap.

And then, there are some players who never learned how to tune the instrument correctly.

In a decade or two, it won't matter, most of us who really can play, and those who listen to such, will be long gone to that trad jazz heaven? in the sky.

13 posted on 10/31/2005 9:57:07 AM PST by Banjoguy (I will rot in Hell before I buy another Dell!)
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To: perfect stranger

Besides which that banjo in the picture is a 5-wire...not my flavor.


14 posted on 10/31/2005 9:58:24 AM PST by Banjoguy (I will rot in Hell before I buy another Dell!)
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