jordanFinally found this song I wrote after 20 years. Go rip your old CDs kids.
Eric the half-a-beeHi home instrument makers!
What could I use as the skin/drum for a crude home made fretless biscuit tin banjo?
FrankMost banjos today have rims where the walls are drilled and have bracket shoes to hold the L-brackets that tension the skin, as you can see in this image of my cheap mini #banjo.
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Recently I became fascinated by a construction method for #Banjo rims that goes back to mid 19th century and is now known as the Ashborn rim.
It was named after instruments constructed by James Ashborn. His banjos were very modern and have an elegant design that somehow reminds me of furniture from the following "mid century", the 20th century.
The FRETS.COM Museum shows many details of an Ashborn banjo from 1852 - including the distinctive rim flange.
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https://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Museum/Banjo/Antique/Ashborn/1852ashborn.html
#Banjofriday
StrohhutDave
The Community EditionA HORSE NAMED FRIDAY LAUNCH ANTICIPATED DEBUT ALBUM
On Apr. 14, 2026, the Kitchener-based chamber-folk band A Horse Named Friday released their debut album, The Marriage of Loneliness and Continental Bliss, marking a milestone for a project that was years in the making.
The band kicked off their supporting tour this month at Kitchener’s Queen St. Commons Cafe, bringing a sound shaped by diverse instrumentation and a strong sense of […]
https://www.communityedition.ca/a-horse-named-friday-launch-anticipated-debut-album/
Rundkuchenbrot / PseudoLange keine Musike hier rein geschubst
Also etwas ruhiges zum - ääähhm ruhig?
Sorry, ga nix ruhig
Banjo oder dergleichen scheint aktuell sehr gern genommen
TwinBeats x KarooBeats - Slam Those Boots To Jive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz6LtWugaMY
TwinBeats x KarooBeats - Slam Those Boots To Jive
Mark Twain is sometimes wrongly credited with a quote about gentlemen and banjos. He never said it. He said:
> "When you want genuine music—music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, [...] ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose,—when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming #banjo!"
https://www.marktwainproject.org/writings/ets1/texts/ets-enthusiastic-eloquence/
