wow that's gotta be my favorite gourd banjo build I've seen in a while. The cypress is gorgeous with that straight grain and what a great story behind the tuning pegs. Incredible sound too, and damn I love that foot stomp
Thanks! I’ve enjoyed seeing videos of your music and work as well. It’s interesting how individual every maker’s instruments are - especially with gourd banjos, it’s such an open form.
“Never forsaking, never denying His children and His children's children forever Unto all generations of the faithful heart.” As long as the South has men like you, Barrow, the old ways will never perish. This is a sublime video.
I be up country, S.C. Enjoyed the song and presentation of your playable plant life. Your outfit captures the style worn by fellas as seen in old photographs. Good day.
Greetings brother from Campobello South Carolina, Spartanburg County! I play old Time banjo, and have built a few. Hope to build a gourd banjo soon! Did Civil War reacting for four years and do revolutionary war now Would like to incorporate a gourd banjo into my revolutionary war persona. Hope to meet you sometime great video!
Thanks! Great to know of other similarly minded people in the area! Do you have Facebook? Look me up if you do and we can keep in touch. Would love to play some tunes together.
This is great! Great job on the gourd banjer! I have to ask...where did you get your clothes and that nice hat? I'd love to have an ensemble like that! I'm 71 and talk about change!!!
Thank you! The shirt I made myself based on an original which was made for a Confederate soldier from western North Carolina by his mother. Trousers are from Ben Tart who does museum quality repros of 19th century fabric. Linen sack coat from South Union Mills. Hat is a modified and well used Sunbody. Linen tie made by my wife with material from thehistoricalfabricstore.com. Shoes, if you could see them, from Missouri Boot and Shoe Co. There are many others out there doing excellent repros of historical fabrics and clothing, not all of whom necessarily have a storefront. My wife makes a lot of the other clothes we wear for living history programs. I used to do a lot more myself but then I married somebody who actually knew what they were doing!
Thanks for asking. Yes, I make and sell these. At the moment, I am taking a limited number of custom orders since my wife and I are expecting a baby any day now. Please visit my business page to get in touch with me (facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563661769708). You can contact me by PM on Facebook or by way of the email address listed on the business page. For the time being, I can only take one or two more orders.
My actual tuning in this video is a hair below aAC#E, which would just be your "standard" tuning (relative pitch) minus the lowest sting. Basically standard tuning for the key of A but a whole octave lower than where your tune it on a modern steel strung banjo (I am using gut). I find this particular banjo sounds best in this low A tuning. Some other gourd banjos, including another one I've made, sound better tuned slightly higher in low D or G tunings (dADF#A or dGDF#A) which is what I normally use on my 19th century instruments. All these tunings are documented to the mid to early nineteenth century and in 1781 Thomas Jefferson recorded that the slaves on his plantations tuned a four string banjo "precisely [the same as] the four lower chords of the [English] guitar" which corresponds with all of these tunings and standard banjo tuning today in terms of the strings' relative pitch.
Omg it's barrow!!
I'm growing gourds right now to build some instruments with next year!
wow that's gotta be my favorite gourd banjo build I've seen in a while. The cypress is gorgeous with that straight grain and what a great story behind the tuning pegs. Incredible sound too, and damn I love that foot stomp
Thanks! I’ve enjoyed seeing videos of your music and work as well. It’s interesting how individual every maker’s instruments are - especially with gourd banjos, it’s such an open form.
“Never forsaking, never denying
His children and His children's children forever
Unto all generations of the faithful heart.”
As long as the South has men like you, Barrow, the old ways will never perish. This is a sublime video.
More of these types of videos please! Saw y'all at Bateaus & Banjos in June 2024
Thanks for coming out to Batteaux and Banjos! Hope you had a good time. Don't forget to say "hey" next time!
@@barrowwhearybanjotruly excited to come next time.
I be up country, S.C. Enjoyed the song and presentation of your playable plant life. Your outfit captures the style worn by fellas as seen in old photographs. Good day.
So fabulous! Sounds great! Love the tunes!!
Greetings brother from Campobello South Carolina, Spartanburg County!
I play old Time banjo, and have built a few. Hope to build a gourd banjo soon! Did Civil War reacting for four years and do revolutionary war now
Would like to incorporate a gourd banjo into my revolutionary war persona. Hope to meet you sometime great video!
Thanks! Great to know of other similarly minded people in the area! Do you have Facebook? Look me up if you do and we can keep in touch. Would love to play some tunes together.
@@barrowwhearybanjo I just sent a friend request on FB
Absolutely wonderful playing, and a truly beautiful instrument.
Great video Barrow. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤
Thank you Michael!
That is a pretty gourd banjo.
LOVE it!
right on
This is great! Great job on the gourd banjer! I have to ask...where did you get your clothes and that nice hat? I'd love to have an ensemble like that! I'm 71 and talk about change!!!
Thank you! The shirt I made myself based on an original which was made for a Confederate soldier from western North Carolina by his mother. Trousers are from Ben Tart who does museum quality repros of 19th century fabric. Linen sack coat from South Union Mills. Hat is a modified and well used Sunbody. Linen tie made by my wife with material from thehistoricalfabricstore.com. Shoes, if you could see them, from Missouri Boot and Shoe Co. There are many others out there doing excellent repros of historical fabrics and clothing, not all of whom necessarily have a storefront. My wife makes a lot of the other clothes we wear for living history programs. I used to do a lot more myself but then I married somebody who actually knew what they were doing!
What breed of gourd is that
Martin gourd, sometime also called birdhouse or bottle gourd.
@@barrowwhearybanjo thank you
Could probably play in that style with some work on my strumming, simple enough.. if only I had a banjo.
Do you sell these if so what’s your price thanks
Thanks for asking. Yes, I make and sell these. At the moment, I am taking a limited number of custom orders since my wife and I are expecting a baby any day now. Please visit my business page to get in touch with me (facebook.com/profile.php?id=61563661769708). You can contact me by PM on Facebook or by way of the email address listed on the business page. For the time being, I can only take one or two more orders.
@@barrowwhearybanjoCONGRATULATIONS! I shall look into this as well.
What tuning do use on a four stringer like this.
My actual tuning in this video is a hair below aAC#E, which would just be your "standard" tuning (relative pitch) minus the lowest sting. Basically standard tuning for the key of A but a whole octave lower than where your tune it on a modern steel strung banjo (I am using gut). I find this particular banjo sounds best in this low A tuning. Some other gourd banjos, including another one I've made, sound better tuned slightly higher in low D or G tunings (dADF#A or dGDF#A) which is what I normally use on my 19th century instruments. All these tunings are documented to the mid to early nineteenth century and in 1781 Thomas Jefferson recorded that the slaves on his plantations tuned a four string banjo "precisely [the same as] the four lower chords of the [English] guitar" which corresponds with all of these tunings and standard banjo tuning today in terms of the strings' relative pitch.