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The Cookie Tin Variety: a community image bank

Started by Diane in Chicago. Last reply by Keith Zorn Dec 27, 2022. 37 Replies

Post up photos of your tin-tars!  These are the ones that look mostly like this:Continue

Canjo Tablatures

Started by Adam Jellison. Last reply by Adam Jellison Jan 8, 2020. 6 Replies

Maybe it is just me, but I love to sit there and pick out songs I know or songs people want to play on my Canjo.  I own a couple of Canjo Song books from Gitty, and looked around online and found a…Continue

Can Cutting

Started by Mike Whisenhunt. Last reply by Glenn Watt Nov 22, 2019. 9 Replies

So I've made a few of this tin can banjo things. Having a blast playing on them. I've made a couple out of empty tin "soup" cans and one out of a beer can. I cut a few other cans to prepare them to…Continue

The Gas/Kerosene/Oil Can variety: a community image bank

Started by Diane in Chicago. Last reply by James Conder Nov 5, 2018. 7 Replies

If you've used an upright can on a chordophone, here's the place to show your work.I'm looking for an olive oil can right now, one of those really pretty ones from Eastern Europe.Continue

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Comment by Battmann on October 21, 2015 at 7:30pm

not too bad,. I use a 23 guage wound string, tuned to G. A simple instrument but people at work like  them

Comment by Brian Revels on October 19, 2015 at 12:34pm

How does she sound Battmann?

Comment by Battmann on October 18, 2015 at 3:01pm

another canjo

Comment by TN Twang on October 11, 2015 at 10:09am

Sweet, Battmann!

Simple & elegant--but lotsa work on the guitar shapes. I've gotta try that as soon as I get my bandsaw set up again.

I like the idea of moving the 6th fret up to give you a simple major scale.

Comment by Battmann on October 11, 2015 at 6:38am

Made these 2 Canjo's for work;s charity fundraiser

Comment by TN Twang on February 9, 2015 at 10:10am

More about the 6.5th fret:

I left it off my canjo that I keep to practice on. I tune to D and play in G and there's no problem. The only times I play in D, I play so-called major pentatonic tunes that don't use that note anyway, so it doesn't matter.

It's only the folks who tune to a note (like D) and then want to play a full major scale in that key. Best advice: make the 3rd fret your keynote (or tonic) and you'll be okay.

Comment by TN Twang on February 9, 2015 at 10:05am

I'm used to calling it 6.5 in dulcimer tabs. I believe that the high-end music notation programs (Finale and Sibelius) generate a 6.5 (but I'm too lazy to go verify that right now.)

Ben Baker (CB Gitty) has been calling it 7 on all his tabs for the American Canjo Company, and I've got to admit that makes it simpler than trying to explain how 6.5 and 7 are alternate frets depending on which key you're in and watching people's eyes glaze over.

I guess as a tie-breaker we need to ask the people who make multi-string guitars as "strummers" with diatonic tuning. Do you guys put a fret between 6 and 7? If so, what do you call it? Surely I can get some sort of argument discussion going on this.

Comment by David Bowes on February 9, 2015 at 9:54am

TN Twang.

I left the #6.5 fret out, as it was for a friends little girl and I thought it would be easier for her.

Speaking as someone with no musical knowledge, the 6.5 fret(blue note) seams to allow more flexibility, allowing you to play different scales and more blues options, at least that was my understanding.

The numbering is confusing I thought it was known as 6 1/2 fret, most tabs I have come across  are numbered that way, but recently have came across it referred to as number 7, so I am confused. The question is, is there a standard?

Have a look at the link below:

http://www.cigarboxguitar.com/knowledge-base/video-the-essential-ca...

Comment by TN Twang on February 9, 2015 at 4:50am

Thing of great beauty. I'm gonna' steal your bridge design. Don't know why I didn't think of it myself. (Duh!)

I notice you didn't put in a so-called "6 1/2-th fret" .

I haven't been putting one on my builds for canjos, but dulcimer players are starting to expect them to be there. I'd love to provoke a discussion on this website about why the extra fret should or should not be there on diatonic fretboards and whether it should be numbered "fret #7" or "fret #6.5" in tablature.

 

Comment by David Bowes on February 8, 2015 at 9:17pm

 

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The Cookie Tin Variety: a community image bank

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Canjo Tablatures

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Can Cutting

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Strings: Materials, Techniques, Sound, Etc.

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Started by Philip Daniel. Last reply by Rand Moore Apr 4, 2014. 10 Replies

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Started by jabes. Last reply by jabes Mar 25, 2014. 2 Replies

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Started by Alan "Poor Boy" Ackerson. Last reply by Alan "Poor Boy" Ackerson Oct 20, 2013. 6 Replies

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Started by Battmann. Last reply by Thomas "Duck" Petry Jul 23, 2013. 5 Replies

Attaching the Can

Started by Jim burt. Last reply by Russ Dugger Dec 13, 2012. 9 Replies

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