The Hon. Mayor of Banjotown @mayor@banjo.town
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I play (mostly) 19th and early 20th-century banjo music. I'd play 4-string early jazz banjo if I could find any musicians to play with. I reserve the right to post non-banjo content, although I aim to keep this account more or less focused on music.
I am not particularly interested in banjo as a good-old-timey-appalachian-country-folk-bluegrass totem.
(Formerly @banjo)
Working on a tune from 1868 this week, which has a darker sound than its name would suggest. #mastomusic
I've been fooling around with #plectrumbanjo for the first time in a while and damn, steel strings hard on a person's pinky after years of nylon.
I'm tempted to try nylon strings with a felt pick (properly set up, nylon/gut strings can be quite loud on a banjo with a good tone ring) but there is something to be said for building up those callouses and being able to pick up any old #banjo without killing my fingers.
I wrote a thing for the equinox. I began working on this *last* fall and managed to get it cleaned up for this year. Not sure I'll have it rehearsed enough to record tonight but I can at least share the dots:
https://archive.org/details/equinox-jig
#mastomusic #banjo #classicbanjo #fingerstylebanjo #equinox #autumn #standardnotation
This may finally enable me to memorize the bass cleff. (Source: uncredited FB post)
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- https://www.instagram.com/arcanebanjo/
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- he/him
I play (mostly) 19th and early 20th-century banjo music. I'd play 4-string early jazz banjo if I could find any musicians to play with. I reserve the right to post non-banjo content, although I aim to keep this account more or less focused on music.
I am not particularly interested in banjo as a good-old-timey-appalachian-country-folk-bluegrass totem.
(Formerly @banjo)
