Jim Morris Recreates Gus Cannon's Historic Banjo - Cigar Box Nation2024-03-28T12:38:20Zhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum/topics/jim-morris-recreates-gus-cannon?commentId=2592684%3AComment%3A2637006&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThanks Rich. I've used tambou…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2017-11-24:2592684:Comment:29911042017-11-24T12:48:19.709ZJim Morrishttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JimMorris
<p>Thanks Rich. I've used tambourines in the past with great success. Good luck on yours.</p>
<p>Thanks Rich. I've used tambourines in the past with great success. Good luck on yours.</p> Wow, first time seeing this,…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2017-11-24:2592684:Comment:29907652017-11-24T01:48:22.483ZRichard Deanhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/RichardDean
<p>Wow, first time seeing this, what a great story and performance! I hope one day to make my banjourine when I finish my other projects, not a skillet or animal skin from a trapper, got a 12" tambourine for mine, yeah I'm cheating...baby steps.</p>
<p>Rich</p>
<p>fellow WV</p>
<p>Wow, first time seeing this, what a great story and performance! I hope one day to make my banjourine when I finish my other projects, not a skillet or animal skin from a trapper, got a 12" tambourine for mine, yeah I'm cheating...baby steps.</p>
<p>Rich</p>
<p>fellow WV</p> Just Fantabulous,brother.I ha…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2017-10-28:2592684:Comment:29700252017-10-28T07:07:15.378ZDowntown Vinniehttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/CigarBoxJoker
<p>Just Fantabulous,brother.I have some ideas bout a bunnt pan I have sittin around now.</p>
<p>Just Fantabulous,brother.I have some ideas bout a bunnt pan I have sittin around now.</p> Hey Shane,Ben and anybody els…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2017-10-27:2592684:Comment:29696802017-10-27T20:03:31.588ZJim Morrishttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JimMorris
<p>Hey Shane,Ben and anybody else interested, you've got to check out the utube comment I received from noted banjo historian and author Tony Thomas. He's pretty much a Gus Cannon expert but me, being me, responded with a rebuttal. Here's his scholarly comment. For my rebuttal view the vid on utube.</p>
<p>Tony Thomas<br></br> 1 month ago<br></br> Nice music but it has NOTHING to do with how Cannon played Minglewood blues. The story about the banjo made from his mother's biscuit pan and tightening the…</p>
<p>Hey Shane,Ben and anybody else interested, you've got to check out the utube comment I received from noted banjo historian and author Tony Thomas. He's pretty much a Gus Cannon expert but me, being me, responded with a rebuttal. Here's his scholarly comment. For my rebuttal view the vid on utube.</p>
<p>Tony Thomas<br/> 1 month ago<br/> Nice music but it has NOTHING to do with how Cannon played Minglewood blues. The story about the banjo made from his mother's biscuit pan and tightening the head with a flame was about a banjo Cannon acquired when he was 12 or 13 and may not be true at all as it conflicts with his and his mother's location at the time and his family's insistence that he play fiddle not banjo.Byt the time he was 14 or 15 his brother wByon a professionally made banjo in card in craps game. He recorded the Minglewood Blues when he was 42. Cannon made only one recordiung using slide. His commentary on using slide on a banjo is that he found it too much of a mess for his working banjo playing because he had to unwind the strings put coins under the banjo bride, tighten and tune the strings, and then undo all of that to play in the standard tuning that he preferred the drop C tuning of now associated with classic banjo. The Minglewood blues like most of Cannons 1927-30 recordings was done in the standard tuning of drop c and done oplaying in what is properly called the guitar banjo style, now inaccurately called classic banjo, it is normally played as a three finger style, but Cannon played with four fingers, using the normal assignment system used in classic banjo.He tended the maximum bracket type banjos prevelant in the early 20th century. One banjo we have identified he used during that period is a Van Eps Recording banjo, a banjo that even with nylon or gut strings sounds as lloud as a howitzer!Cannon said he tried using a pick but he broke the picks because played so hard, and never considered any kind of plectrum banjo playing because he felt he could do the same thing using his fingers. He did confess he once bought a tenor banjo but decided not to learn to play it but continue with the style he developed.<br/>
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<p>View all 6 replies<br/> CapnsKustomWorks<br/> Capns</p> Thanks JDtag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2016-07-17:2592684:Comment:26501032016-07-17T17:25:36.637ZJim Morrishttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JimMorris
<p>Thanks JD</p>
<p>Thanks JD</p> Great job Jim!tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2016-07-16:2592684:Comment:26491362016-07-16T13:29:39.829ZJ.D.https://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JD201
Great job Jim!
Great job Jim! Good luck! Call some friends…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2016-07-05:2592684:Comment:26411842016-07-05T11:35:22.956ZJim Morrishttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JimMorris
<p>Good luck! Call some friends to help eat that cake. 2 litre bottles work well on small wooden salad bowls which can be inserted in a larger body as in the old style mountain banjos. Something like this.</p>
<p><img src="http://noteworthyjohn.com/productPics/mbanjo.jpg"/></p>
<p>Good luck! Call some friends to help eat that cake. 2 litre bottles work well on small wooden salad bowls which can be inserted in a larger body as in the old style mountain banjos. Something like this.</p>
<p><img src="http://noteworthyjohn.com/productPics/mbanjo.jpg"/></p> I bought a heatgun on the fle…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2016-07-05:2592684:Comment:26413032016-07-05T07:14:40.746ZSlow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bearhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/SlowBluesDani
<p>I bought a heatgun on the fleamarket yesterday and some tacks too. Couldn't find any plastic big enough for my bowls of the right kind though. I don't think we have three-litre drinks bottles any more, or I couldn't find any, so I'm going to have to buy a massive carrot cake that I saw. $15! Bye bye diet haha. I'll let you know how it turns out. Thanks for your help so far Jim.</p>
<p>I bought a heatgun on the fleamarket yesterday and some tacks too. Couldn't find any plastic big enough for my bowls of the right kind though. I don't think we have three-litre drinks bottles any more, or I couldn't find any, so I'm going to have to buy a massive carrot cake that I saw. $15! Bye bye diet haha. I'll let you know how it turns out. Thanks for your help so far Jim.</p> A hairdryer will work! It's w…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2016-07-04:2592684:Comment:26411432016-07-04T23:35:32.858ZJim Morrishttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/JimMorris
<p>A hairdryer will work! It's what I used before getting a heat gun. Try the high setting and maybe a bit closer than with the heat gun.</p>
<p>A hairdryer will work! It's what I used before getting a heat gun. Try the high setting and maybe a bit closer than with the heat gun.</p> Wow. Wel I've got a guitar ne…tag:www.cigarboxnation.com,2016-07-04:2592684:Comment:26407872016-07-04T01:25:59.320ZSlow Blues Dani & Ol' Grey Bearhttps://www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/SlowBluesDani
<p>Wow. Wel I've got a guitar neck off an electric guitar and one off an acoustic just sitting amongst my wood pile already. I've got all manner of different wooden and metal bowls in different sizes too. That plastic idea is just genius so you know what? I reckon I'm fixing to have me a banjo real quick! Thanks very much Jim. Now, I wonder if I can use Dani's hairdryer since I don't have a heatgun? Only one way to find out! Woohoo. Thanks again Jim. Much appreciated. </p>
<p>Wow. Wel I've got a guitar neck off an electric guitar and one off an acoustic just sitting amongst my wood pile already. I've got all manner of different wooden and metal bowls in different sizes too. That plastic idea is just genius so you know what? I reckon I'm fixing to have me a banjo real quick! Thanks very much Jim. Now, I wonder if I can use Dani's hairdryer since I don't have a heatgun? Only one way to find out! Woohoo. Thanks again Jim. Much appreciated. </p>