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Location: Waynesville NC | I've played Ovations for many years but it's usually been my second instrument, the first being banjo. Now before the jokes start can anyone tell me why Ovation shouldn't make a banjo? With that bowl back it would really project the hell out of the instrument (as if we weren't loud enough already) Maybe the time is now? |
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Location: NJ | banjo players are only second to accordian players on the bottom of the musician food chain. You have a good point but banjo players are even more traditional than guitarists and that would be a real unhill battle. all though the mandos do well and are very nice. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Debanjo
Interesting idea, the acoustic Ovation was inspired by bluegrass acoustic guitars, I wonder if a banjo was ever tried with the roundback as it does make some sense. the guitar design might have to be modified to get the banjo's intentional lack of resonance. The only drawback that I can see is the traditional adherence to the Gibson design of Earl Scruggs fame. The mandolin has somewhat the same problem of all successful ones being carbon copies of the Gibson f hole, the Ovation mandolins are making progress in country music but not in bluegrass yet. If banjos start showing up outside of bluegrass, as they are, I've seen 6 string Deerings on two or three country videos, there might be a market for a new design, I'm afraid bluegrassers and old timey folks are going to be difficult to get away from their "vintage" copies. Louder probably isn't the answer, cleaner and more stable at staying in tune might work especially today when almost all work is amplified and recording is done by every band. Maybe the opportunity is to build one that sounds right when you plug it in and will record cleanly. These are some of the features of Ovation guitars. Then every serious banjo player would have to have one as a second working banjo and would only play his "vintage" at jam sessions.
That clean sounding banjo might stop all the joking, on second thought let's not go any farther here or half of us will have nothing to joke about. It would wipe out 90% of my joke repertoire.
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Location: Scotland | The disadvatage being that the fibreglass would make them more difficlut to set fire to. (I should make it clear, bearing in mind recent critisism, that this is a lame attempt at humour and in no way a malicious attack on banjos & banjo players)
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Location: NJ | Why not just take the back off of your banjo and replace it with a Tupperware salad bowl? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I just don't understand why Paul T would try to deprive banjo players of their civil rights but I probably agree, I'm voting for him any way as he has stood up for guitar rights. every banjo player should be forced to play in tune. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I heard that the banjo players in Nashville always park in the handicapped spots, they just leave their picks on the dash. |
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Location: NJ | Q: What do you do if you see a banjo player at your door?
A: Pay him for the pizza. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Debanjo
I tried to be serious and look what happened on this thread, I have played bluegrass for 30 years and I've never been so insulted. My band has, for the last five years always provided a handicapped spot on stage for the banjo player. The blue paint has broke our budget but we try to do what is right.
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