Banjo, Double Bass & Fiddle Performance by Lonesome Ace Stringboard: Greensleeves

Banjo, Double Bass & Fiddle Performance by Lonesome Ace Stringboard: Greensleeves @ Painted Lady, Toronto
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Band Members:
Banjo: Chris Coole
Fiddle: John Showman
Double Bass: Max Heineman
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Banjo:
The banjo is a four-, five- or (occasionally) six-stringed
instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame
or cavity as a resonator, called the head.
The membrane, or head, is typically made of plastic,
although animal skin is still occasionally but rarely used,
and the frame is typically circular.
Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans
in America, adapted from African instruments of similar design.
The banjo is frequently associated with country, folk,
Irish traditional and bluegrass music.
Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African
American traditional music, before becoming popular in
the minstrel shows of the 19th century.
The banjo, with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American
old-time music. It is also very frequently used in
Traditional Jazz.
Double Bass:
The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names)
is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the
modern symphony orchestra.
It is a transposing instrument and is typically notated one octave
higher than sounding to avoid excessive ledger lines.
The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that
is tuned in fourths (like a viol), rather than fifths, with strings
usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2.
The instrument's exact lineage is still a matter of some debate,
with scholars divided on whether the bass is derived from the
viol or the violin family.
The double bass is a standard member of the orchestra's
string section, as well as the concert band,
and is featured in concertos, solo and chamber music in Western
classical music.
The bass is used in a range of other genres, such as jazz,
1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly/psychobilly,
traditional country music, bluegrass, tango and many
types of folk music.
The double bass is played either with a bow (arco) or by plucking
the strings (pizzicato). In orchestral repertoire and tango music,
both arco and pizzicato are employed. In jazz, blues,
and rockabilly, pizzicato is the norm.
While classical music uses just the natural sound produced
acoustically by the instrument, in jazz, blues, and related genres,
the bass is typically amplified with an amplifier and speaker.
Fiddle:
Fiddle is another name for the bowed string musical instrument
more often called a violin. It is also a colloquial term for the
instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music.
Fiddle playing, or fiddling, refers to various styles of music.
Fiddle is also a common term among musicians who play folk
music on the violin. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk)
styles of music which are aural traditions, taught 'by ear' rather
than via written music.
There are few real distinctions between violins and fiddles,
though more primitively constructed and smaller violins are
more likely to be considered fiddles.
Due to the style of the music played, fiddles may optionally
be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to allow multiple strings
to be played simultaneously with more ease, such as the droning
in bluegrass music or performing triple stops.
In order to produce a "brighter" tone, compared to the deeper tones
of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often prefer to use steel
strings on their instruments. Among musical styles,
fiddling tends to produce rhythms focused on dancing, with
associated quick note changes, whereas classical music tends
to contain more vibrato and sustained notes.
It is less common for a classically trained violinist to play folk
music, but today, many fiddlers have classical training.
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