I think there's some soul rubbed into the wood of old well played instruments. When the moon is right, you can conjure up that old cat and play outside your body. You can learn something... Just let him take over... That way they get to play again.
Yeah Dave, I've come across a couple like that. It's like having history in your hands. One fellow in my jam group regularly plays one similar to what you described but it has no markings or date. It sounds great!
When I lived in So. E. Ohio, I had a civil war banjo. Fretless. It had a goat skin head with some hair on the skin. It was rawhide mounted but had a hoop of Rusty iron around the rim. The fingerboard was deeply dished out but played great. You could tell just where to put your fingers from the finger dents. It was dated 1863. I regret I sold it there. But it planted a seed in me for old instruments.
Thanks Dave. Before getting into CBG's some of my first builds were gourd banjos. I was trying to duplicate what I saw in old plantation drawings and find out how they sounded. Been a while since I've made one but I feel like I need to get back to doing some more, this time maybe with a "how to" vid since I didn't document much stuff back then.
Thanks AGP. I have 1/2 of a coconut shell stashed around here somewhere but couldn't find it. I already had the goatskin on this gourd from an instrument making workshop I did a few months ago. Wasn't really sure what I wanted to make with it till I saw that featured article.
"Love It", pure and simple, have a Coconut build on the to do list, and some nice little Gourds about that size still growing on the vine, which will now have to added to the list when ripened and dried.
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Yup Dave , sometimes I can feel that!
Yeah Dave, I've come across a couple like that. It's like having history in your hands. One fellow in my jam group regularly plays one similar to what you described but it has no markings or date. It sounds great!
Thanks Dave. Before getting into CBG's some of my first builds were gourd banjos. I was trying to duplicate what I saw in old plantation drawings and find out how they sounded. Been a while since I've made one but I feel like I need to get back to doing some more, this time maybe with a "how to" vid since I didn't document much stuff back then.
Very nice. Love it's simplicity and historical look. Fun!
Thanks AGP. I have 1/2 of a coconut shell stashed around here somewhere but couldn't find it. I already had the goatskin on this gourd from an instrument making workshop I did a few months ago. Wasn't really sure what I wanted to make with it till I saw that featured article.
Thanks Peter.
"Love It", pure and simple, have a Coconut build on the to do list, and some nice little Gourds about that size still growing on the vine, which will now have to added to the list when ripened and dried.
Nice!
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