Banjos & Such @mayor@banjo.town

There's a timpani on craigslist

I gotta write a new intro/bio and maybe change my screen name, my attention span pendulum has swung away from obscure banjo music at the moment

This may finally enable me to memorize the bass cleff. (Source: uncredited FB post)

With all the #earlybanjo stuff I post here, One thing I haven't really addressed is its problematic legacy. It's interesting to learn, play and record instrumental songs published in banjo tutor books that were published from 1855-1900 or so, but they are interspersed with *virulently* racist popular tunes of the time period, when #banjo was the star instrument of blackface minstrelsy... 1/

Not for want of doing other music stuff but this looptober may be a 'immediately spiral out of [monthly challenge]" situation 😑

I'm not on Reddit anymore but every once in a while a search result sends me there and it's kind of amazing how, no matter what kind of guitar a thread is about, or what year the thread is from, about 95% of the comments are dudes holding forth about how quality control in [country guitar was made in] sucks and also how they own the same guitar made in [same country] from 10 years ago and the quality is way better

thankfully, I am prevented from shaving this yak any further by not having any momentary switches

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:opens new tab to look up a source for momentary foot switches:

(Me, on September 30, looking up schematics for MIDI footswitches for #looptober)

I managed to get the Funkwhale pod I set up for last #looptober back online, I should try to stabilize it and keep it online

Revisiting the Funkwhale UI and data model has me wanting to tinker with my long-running "federated bandcamp, not federated spotify" idea again. 😬

Anyway, I managed to do 15 tracks last year, we'll see what happens this year.

https://music.mysteryhouse.studio/library/tracks/17/

true to brand, I'm already trying to overthink #looptober

I don't actually *look* at this banjo often enough

Are there any stable-ish music oriented #peertube instances around these days? I should look again but I'm pretty sure the one where I had put all my old YouTube stuff went away

I have also stolen and from dads.cool because they make me very happy

I have updated the #banjomojis to be screen reader friendly (and less cryptic in general)

I mean, most of them are still pretty cryptic if you're not a 19th century banjo weirdo but

Got sniped

Which is for the best, seeing as I was just posting about not having anywhere to actually work on instruments

There's a local guitar and effects maker expo happening today and I'm trying so hard to rationalize going instead of working on finishing my own workshop so I have an actual space to in which make instruments and effects

1 day left, a few other bids but still shy of my limit ⏱️