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BanjoJudy

Sore fingers when playing banjo uke 4 Replies

Started by BanjoJudy. Last reply by Topher Gayle Apr 9.

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Robert Harris Comment by Robert Harris on October 1, 2009 at 4:15pm
Cheers ---
François Banholzer Comment by François Banholzer on April 17, 2009 at 4:29pm
After years of enjoying "regular" ukuleles, I fell in love with banjo ukulele and build myself this :

http://www.instructables.com/id/Home-made-banjo-uke/

About 40 bucks, I guess, and here is a happy man :)

Cheers everybody.

François
Topher Gayle Comment by Topher Gayle on April 9, 2009 at 12:56pm
I'll look for a photo. I do have one, somewhere, of my crazy friend Henry (wearing a mad anarchist outfit and sporting a freshly waxed mustache) holding the uke - the photo is from about 1975. I'd had the uke for about a year, and it already had metal strings on it, but I hadn't yet replaced the fingerboard and tuners and refinished it. I've tried nylon strings on this banjo, but it sounds just much much better the way I have it. It's more like a soprano plectrum banjo than a uke banjo. Sweet sounding and true.
Pat Nelson Comment by Pat Nelson on April 9, 2009 at 10:39am
Hi Topher,

I think you might be damaging your banjo-uke by stringing it with metal. Banjo-ukes are meant to have ukulele strings. Wire strings have more tension than nylon strings. Your banjo-uke sounds like a fun one to play. Will you post a picture of it?
Topher Gayle Comment by Topher Gayle on April 9, 2009 at 2:47am
I have an old Slingerland Maybell banjo uke which an old man in New Orleans gave me for helping him move out of his apartment into another one. I had to fix it up a lot, but it's a very lovely old banjo uke with a skin head.

I put metal strings on it and tune it to B-E-A-D
Jim Geyer & Pat Bases Comment by Jim Geyer & Pat Bases on January 2, 2009 at 5:21pm
Hello Everyone!
 

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BanjoJudy Marcy Marxer Alan Johnson Topher Gayle Pat Nelson Robert Armstrong Paul Cundari Ersatz-uker SoundofPi Nancy Eaton Aaron Keim Jim Geyer & Pat Bases Brad Griffith Trent Van Blaricom François Banholzer Jason Rodgers Daniel Cull John Duprey shane mcalister Dan Buckland Robert Harris Martyn Tanner
 
 

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