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Hi Folks - Anyone here ever play one of those 6 string hybrid banjos ?? Seems like a fun thing to mess around with and no learning curve.. they're relatively inexpensive (lower end models).. Just curious if anyone has one and what you think..
thanks...
I have a dean. I don`t get much use out of it. When I do, I love it. Tunes and plays just like a guitar. Sounds like a banjo.
Its a GITJO.
I tried to talk my wife into one when she was HE!! bent on a Banjo. Now she has a banjo and for 3 years it’s been sitting in a case doing nothing. If she had gotten the gitjo, then hell I would be playing it, able to teach HER how to play it and my Son could be using it!
Ooops sorry, this is not about me LOLOL I say if you want it get it. I love how the banjo is creeping into modern rock! Check out Volbeat’s new CD, in particularly a song called Doc Holliday. Banjo all through it,, it could be a gitjo,, who knows??
My son has one and several nice guitars. I have to play it a little each time I go over there. They say they sound even better if you buy strings for a 12 string and use the smaller strings for the banjo and the larger strings on a guitar.
One of my buddies has a Deering Boston 6-string that he lets me play frequently and it sounds great with the metal finger picks I like using on my guitars. He rarely plays it and has tried to sell it to me but its a little out of my price range. I usually have one "Nashville" tuned guitar in my music room (strung with the same gauge strings as the octave strings of a 12-string like deadstring mentioned) and it sounds like a cross between a mando and banjo. I imagine a 6-string banjo strung "Nashville High Tuned" would create an interesting sound.
DE
I've heard they get great gas mileage.
I tried to talk my wife into one when she was HE!!
I read this passage about 6 times before reading any further..... I was confused 
:lol::lol:
Roger
beamer wrote:I tried to talk my wife into one when she was HE!!
I read this passage about 6 times before reading any further..... I was confused
Roger
yep I cant type HE## bent and heck just dont cover correctly LOLOL
Many thanks folks for your info and advice... I may go ahead and get one.. we do quite a bit of Americana type stuff.. think it would be kinda cool to play that on a few tunes...
I had to read Beamer's reply a couple of times myself.. funny.
Thanks again.. will post if it happens..
Hey Roger and Debrap, I have to keep you guys on your Toes dont I?
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