RE; tenor banjo sets
http://www.the-music-room.com/ does a line in Redwing Strings for the tenor
banjo and all other stringed instruments. For the tenor you can choose
light, medium and heavy gauge and any combination of singles. Prices reduced
for bulk purchases, etc. They are also very fast in
Jon wrote:
Tenor sets can be very hard to find in the UK too.
As I mentioned before, I opt for singles but your type
of solution is quite common - I used to do that too.
So it's not my invention ;-)
If you wanted to try ordering sets from the UK, you could try
Redwing Strings from Mally -
Frank wrote ... I bought ... a ... banjo tears ago...
Wonderful!!
I know that t and y are keyboard neighbours but I like to imagine it was a
Freudian slip.
Laurie
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To Frank Nordberg (again, off topic)
Frank
I don't have enough info to give a full opinion on your banjo. Whether it
was an expensive one or not, the length of the vibrating string (from nut to
bridge) and your phrase 'Tuning it to standard tenor banjo tuning (C, G, D
A)turned out to be a *very*
Laurie (ukonline) wrote:
Frank wrote ... I bought ... a ... banjo tears ago...
Wonderful!!
I know that t and y are keyboard neighbours but I like to imagine it was a
Freudian slip.
;-)
That particular instrument has certainly been a source of frustration
for its poor owner and his fellow
From: Frank Nordberg wrote:
I bought what I thought was a standard tenor banjo tears ago to play in
a dixieland band. Tuning it to standard tenor banjo tuning (C, G, D A)
turned out to be a *very* bad idea, however. I still haven't figured out
if it's supposed to be a plectrum banjo or and
Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One more question:
Would you consider the Irish and The New Orleans tenor banjos as two
different instruments?
Ignornt answer from me I'm afraid, I consider tenor as a tenor.
The only type of four-string set I've ever seen in a Norwegian music
