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mesc posted:Anyone have experience with Recording King banjos? I've been renting for the past few months while I take bluegrass banjo lessons, and I'm about ready to purchase my own. I've never played one but I've heard plenty and they sound great. Another option in that same quality and price range are Gold Star banjos (not to be confused with gold tone.)I have a Gold Star gf-85 and it is great. They are built like pre war Gibsons and have that classic Gibson banjo look, which I prefer. Either way you can't really go wrong. Here is me playing my Gold Star (sound quality isn't so hot but you get the general idea.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ykCE-DUggk
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Dr. Gene Dango MD posted:Can anyone recommend some good banjo centric bluegrass? Ooooh man. Anything with Jim Mills, dude digs in so hard and pulls ridiculous tones, my favourite banjo player by far. The whole Ricky Skaggs Bluegrass Rules album is banjo gold really https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVy8uf_TUjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wejj8G9ZoXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bLjIMX3bE Steeldrivers have some great banjo breaks too, less traditional sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUw7do1XuDQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bOI8ORYMU Aaaand one of my favourite Union Station songs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9GvHSF0JYc Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver playing at warp speed, Terry Baucom tearing up the banjo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SU-s7VLCKk I could probably post a million more but I'll stop there
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Smeed posted:I've never touched an instrument before the banjo and I really don't know anyone who is very musically inclined, but do most people learn more than one tuning? I've always played open G, but now that I've gotten to something new in the book I'm learning from I feel like a complete newbie. If you're playing bluegrass, you can get away with just G, and maybe D tuning once in a while (f#DF#AD), if you're playing old time/clawhammer you'll probably want to be comfortable with Open G, Double C (gCGCD), and sawmill (gDGCD). It pretty much totally depends on what tunes you want to play, and if you eventually start playing with others, what tunes they play. There are like a gazillion banjo tunings, you can't possibly know them all, but it's good to know a couple.
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Planet X posted:Now I have a question: After watching that video, I'm interested in taking the flange off, but I don't want to take the "hooks" off that I'm assuming hold the head in place. If I loosen all of the bolts, will the head just pop off? I don't want to have to re-tension the head. Here's a thing from deering explaining how to remove a Goodtime flange, they're in two pieces and they have you do it one side at a time so your head tension doesn't get too jacked up, but frankly there's no way it won't need to be re-tensioned properly after doing something so drastic. http://www.deeringbanjos.com/faqs/removing-goodtime-2-resonator
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Pufflekins posted:Are real basic/cheap Washburns worth it? I know Washburn makes good high end guitars, but I don't know how their low end stuff is. I'm looking at an open-back 5-string. They're fine as starter banjos. It does not matter at all which cheap banjo you buy as your first, because they all come out of the same factory. Washburns, Morgan Monroes, Fenders, Epiphones, Mastercraft, Ozark, Rally, Oscar Schmidt...are all made by Daewon musical instruments co. As long as it is set up well it doesn't matter much.
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