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Приєднався 23 гру 2014
Homemade instruments and music
Boys My Money's All Gone on Cigar Box Banjo
This one's an old cigar box with a 6" goatskin head stretched onto an aluminum hoop. Cherry neck with hand carved friction pegs and Aquila strings.
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A tune for 5/4/24
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Just messing around with putting an old time fiddle tune called Cold Frosty Morn into 5/4 time.
Stone's Rag on Whisky Tin Fiddle
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An old one in the key of C with banjo uke accompaniment. Going for an old, scratchy, 78 record sound.
Fretless Tack Head Banjo.
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Walnut pot, ash neck with walnut stripe, pre finished flooring for fingerboard, goatskin head. Tuned down around E modal since Aquila minstrel strings are what I had on hand. Cluck Old Hen is the tune.
Tune for Today's Solar Eclipse
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I had this song about the sun stuck in my head today for some reason.
Gourd Banjo
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I didn't make this banjo, just made a few repairs and modifications to get it playable. Turned out pretty nicely. The tune is Mole In The Ground.
Walnut Fretless Tack Head Banjo
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I made this for a young banjojo player who wanted a fretless. Nylgut strings tuned approximately gCGcd. The tune is Spotted Pony.
Cigar Box Fiddle Christmas Tune
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I learned this on guitar several years ago (all 19 chords!) and just recently learned the melody on fiddle. Merry Christmas to all!
Ukulele Club!
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The Hampshire County Ukulele Club at the December 9 Christkindl Market in Romney, WV
3 String Fretless Wine Box Bass
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I made this for a friend who wanted a 3 string bass. It uses the E, A, and D strings. There's a piezo pickup under the top with a volume knob. It has decent tone and volume acoustically and sounds great amplified. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Blessed Yule, and Happy Holidays to all!
Vintage Rock with Vintage Friends
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It was fun to break out the SG and play some old songs with old friends for Romney Class of 73 reunion.
Step Around Johnny on Cigar Box Fiddle
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Newly finished fiddle using a Partagas cigar box for the body. It's a bit smaller than I like which contributes to sort of a nasally tone, but not too bad. At least I didn't need to do cutouts on the sides with this size box. Step Around Johnny is an old time fiddle tune in D.
Frying Pan Banjo
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An old beat up frying pan, goatskin head, oak and mahogany neck. I left the handle on this one just for fun. The tune is North Carolina Breakdown.
Sandy Boys on Cigar Box Banjo
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Made from a Kuba Deluxe cigar box with a 6" salad bowl insert that has a goatskin head stretched and tacked on. Walnut neck with oak center strip. Sandy Boys is an old fiddle tune played out of A modal tuning.
WV License Plate Ukulele
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Just finished this uke for a friend and fellow West Virginian. This is a little bit of Hazel Dickens' wonderful song about WV.
Spotted Pony - slow tempo clawhammer banjo
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Spotted Pony - slow tempo clawhammer banjo
Rock The Cradle Joe - slow tempo clawhammer banjo
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Rock The Cradle Joe - slow tempo clawhammer banjo
Isham Monday's Fire On The Mountain on Gourd Fiddle
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Isham Monday's Fire On The Mountain on Gourd Fiddle
Give the Fiddler a Dram on whiskey box fiddle
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Give the Fiddler a Dram on whiskey box fiddle
Always a joy to hear you play!
@smheron1 Much appreciated, Scott. I'm still bummed about missing you guys at Clatter.
Nice CBB and excellent playing. I learned Scruggs style years ago but not Claw. Wish now it'd been the other way around. Claw has more soul.
Thanks! I started with Scruggs style a long time ago and then switched to clawhammer after discovering it by accident. I still play some two finger style occasionally when I want to sound a little bluegrassier.
Awesome as always Jim!! We miss seeing your videos over at Cigar Box Nation, have you seen the site lately, Shane upgraded it recently?
@brianq4.13.69 Thanks! I Haven't looked at it lately, have to check it out. I'm trying to cut back on my internet time. Between UA-cam and a couple of Facebook sites, it seems like I stare at a screen way more than I should.
AWESOME! more of that please!
@@joesiemoneit4145 Thank you!
Bravo 👏 you are something!!!!
@@MikefromMOMichaelTurner227 Thank you!
Fabulous instrument equally fabulously played \(^v^)/! 🪕
@@finjay21fj Thank you.
Very nice work! I have built a half dozen dulcimers and my son is a Luthier. I have been wanting to build a banjo. No time like the present I guess. My dad built the first dulcimer I ever saw and gave it to me. If he only knew he started.
@@chuckbowen5024 Thank you. I made one banjo after I retired and couldn't stop making stuff, lol. Banjos aren't too hard. My first was fretless because I was nervous about fret work. I'm over that now.
About to build my own soon, beautiful work!
@@xyn000 Thanks. Have fun building yours!
@@morbanjo2503 thank you!
Bravo 👏 Sounds awesome!
@@carlosmacmartin4205 Thanks!
sweet job
Thanks!
I heard an old 78 record one time, and the band played a tune called "Money in Both Pockets" at a breakneck pace. At the end of the song they broke into laughter and started saying "That's a swell tune, but it shore don't fit my pockets !" So somebody says "Well Ok - We'll play another one - This one's called "Boy's, My Money's All Gone" and they take off on a tune - and it's the exact same tune as the first ! Always got a chuckle out'ta that. That record might have been The Skillet Lickers but Ah'dunno, it's been a long time back. BTW - You play excellent music and the BoxJo is GREAT !
Thank you for that story! Those fellas were having fun!
First time I've heard this tune. It's got the irish feel to me, dig it!
Thank you. I suspect it has Irish roots, as do many of our old fiddle tunes.
That's clawhammer style :-) 🪕
@@finjay21fj yessir!
Awesome playing and luthiery!
Thank you!
The king returns 👑🪕
Not hardly, but thanks!
Thatreally sounds good!
Thanks!
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Great work!
Thank you
Sounds SO good
Thank you!
Looking “cool”.
Thanks Noah.
Looks great, sounds great! Your money is gone with most of your hair.
Lol, thanks Steve. I get my summer solstice haircut every year.
Nice! Your birthday haircut looks good too! Since we'll be at camp for the 3rd, I'll say Happy Birthday now!!!
Thanks Lou. Looks like NJ was fun!
Thanks! ✌️🎻🙂😎
Thank you.
Ice banjo! Nice playing too!
Thank you Sue.
That's a really nice sounding banjo. Great job.
Thanks Aaron.
That's sweet !!
Thank you.
Wow!! Nice!!
Thank you!
Very outstanding
This is cool can you do a tutorial on how to make one of these
Que marabilla de musica ...
Gracias!
Sounds excellent. Great version.
Thank you!
so very nice
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Thank you for sharing this information. I am a gourd artist and a fiddler, my daughter plays guitar and banjo so I have wanted to make a gourd fiddle and a gourd banjo for a while for us to play together. Just been afraid to make a start of it and waste too many materials making mistakes.
I've made plenty of mistakes along the way! Go for it!
oh, my.
That is pure genius,,.....
Thank you!
@@morbanjo2503 can I ask how much you are asking...
@daviddavidstorch2307 usually around 200 bucks
@@morbanjo2503 that's reasonable, do you sell the banjo s ass well ?
@@daviddavidstorch2307 Yessir, banjos too.
It sounds great ,I would love to own one please let me know if that is possible......thanks Dave....
Thank you. I do sell these gourd fiddles. You can contact me at morbanjo@gmail.com
Hey man. Awesome playing. I'd like to build something like that. I'm from Argentina. Banjo is not an instrument very popular in my country. So there is no information about the plans, size, and any other technical detayls. Can you send me some information about the construction process please? Sorry about my english, I speak like a monkey. Gracias, saludos desde Argentina, maestro!!!
Hola Matin. Soy del Chaco. Te había compartído un link de una página que está muy buena pero al parecer borrar mi comentario. Cuando quieras repondeme por acáz compartimos nuestros correos electrónicos, y te paso data de construcción que ya recolecté para que te sea más fácil.
Buscá "Banjo Hang out". A ver si así no me borran éste con el nombre del sitio. Hacete un usuario así también podes postear cosas, opinar y/o preguntar.
Sabes que te compartí otro con el nombre del sitio web, no con el link y me lo borraron también.😮
I really like the sound of your wood top banjos. Of course, being able to play them the way you can helps I guess :) Would you mind sharing what scale length you are using?
Thank you. I usually use 25.5" scale. I've made some with 24".
Contrary to this foolishness Cannon was very very strong according to people who knew him about having a professional level banjo since he considered himself a professional banjoist and unfortunately felt disdain for folk banjoists black or white., The banjos we know of him owning are a Washburn "Professional" which he as playing by 1915, a Van Eps Recording Banjo a very special rare hard to get banjo expensive banjo designed for recording artists created by the leading banjoist of the 1920s, and from some point in the 1960s he was playing a Gretsch "Bacon" Broadkaster, a huge resonator banjo. He also said he owned a tenor banjo in the late 1920s or early 30s when he had an unsuccessful attempt to learn the tenor banjo, In his old age when health limited his ability to play the Broadckaster, supporters in the music community in Memphis helped him to obtain and keep a Gretsch "Bacon" Belmont open back, a small banjo designed for the folk revival.
The story that Cannon told about his mother and the frying pan banjo does not make sense. Cannon said he learned to play the banjo and began playing it when he was 12 or 13 when he had been sent to the Mississippi Delta to help his brother sharecrop cotton. It was in part in revolt against his family that had already assigned the banjo spot in the family band to another child and the fiddle to Cannon who was known just as much as fiddler as a banjoist until about 1920. In the Delta he was 80 to 100 miles away from his mother and her pans. Rather shortly when he was about 15 his brother won in a crap game a professional-level banjo that he held onto at least 20 years
You are undoubtedly the expert on this subject, Mr Thomas! Even if the story is apocryphal, it certainly has inspired several folks, myself included, to see what a banjo made this way might sound like. I've made a half dozen or so to date using various pots and pans.
@@morbanjo2503 It inspired you to go in the opposite direction than what Cannon went. Cannon considered himself a scientific and professional banjoist. People who went to him asking and paying for lessons were taught the SS Stewart method calledc classic banjoby some, finger picking with four fingers. He was lucky that his brother won a nice professional level banjo while Gus Cannon was still a teenager and continued to aspire to own good banjos that I list above for the rest of his life.
@@morbanjo2503 He recorded Poor Boy in February 1927. He had obtained a professional level banjo surely by 1900. Yet you describe a banjo he claimed to have used in 1895, and claim this is how he did it?
@writerrad No sir, I'm not making any claims. I'm certainly not a historian well versed in Gus Cannon's history as you are. I simply thought it would be fun and interesting to make a banjo like this even if it never actually was something made by Mr. Cannon. I'll remove the Gus Cannon reference in the title if you think it appropriate.
beautiful tune you played at the end!
Thank you.
I built one using a piece of PVC drain pipe for the “pot”…. Ugly but I painted it. Your’s sounds better…. I expect because of the larger-diameter head.
Thanks! I've used pvc drain pipe before too. Turned out pretty well.
Angeline
That was beautiful
Thank you!
Can I ask how u attached the skin and got it tight? Wanting to do similar with a copper pan I have 😊
I used self tapping screws to attach the skin head. They went into the aluminum pan pretty easily. I'm not sure how well they'd work with copper, which is a harder metal. Worth giving it a try! Of course you need to soak the skin for about 20 minutes first and stretch it tight as you put in the screws. After it dries for 24 hours it tightens up nicely.
Awesome thanks :)
Do you sell these products, banjo. Tks.Jack
Yes, I do. You can contact me at morbanjo@gmail.com
Awesome banjo, awesome player/singer 👌
Thank you.
Great sound
Thanks!
Awesome !!!🤘🇺🇲⚔️.... Grettings fron Chile 🇨🇱
Thank you.
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