Bob Flesher Minstrel Banjo
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2019
- Banjo Heritage 👉 / cliftonhicks
Here's a fine Boucher-style fretless banjo by Bob Flesher.
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Your "pickin zone" stare always cracks us up, knowing you're really having a good time. Love learning banjo history along with a nice tune or two!
Bills Evans had his minstrel banjo from 1855 at camp bluegrass this week and I got to watch him play it and talk to him about it. Talk about a piece of American history. Truly something else to see and hear in person. You wanna talk about being new to this world, I’m here learning from people like Allen munde and Ned luberecki and I had no idea who they were till now. You and Steve Martin are who I credit for wanting to learn banjo.
I got interested in Minstrel banjo partly through the fingerstyle minstrel banjo videos done about 10 years ago by Rob Mackillop, I think you might find his work interesting, though he is mainly a guitarist and historian. He doesn't do stroke style, he does 2 finger or 3 or 4 finger style (and occasionally pick or plectrum), but for a guitarist who only briefly took up banjo his videos are astoundingly good. He also did some interesting books/recordings for early classical banjo, and a book of Briggs banjo tunes for the ukulele which I am trying on a banjo ukulele. I mention these also for any other enthusiasts out there who are not interested so much in stroke or clawhammer style but otherwise would be interested in exploring 19th century banjo.
It's a beauty and has a great sound! Minstrel is akin to the 19th century version of today's Top 40 type generic pop. What you do sounds authentic to me!
You sure do nail that stroke style matey
I'm also not a huge fan of minstrel tunes, but I really liked the one you played. Hook and Line actually remmebers me of You Were On My Mind This Morning by Tim O'Brien.
I got a Mike Ramsey boucher...love it,use only gut strings
I guess the 'Boucher style' had no sort of 'nut pin' for the 5th string?
Nice looking banjo, I'm not a minstrel music fan either.
Thanks for the video, can you recommend other players who have old recordings? I'm new to banjo music and just got a gold tone ac-12 fretless, Nathan Frazier's old recordings got me into it and I'm curious if you're aware of other historical recordings of black banjo players. Much appreciate any information, thanks.
Get a copy of "Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia"
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Have you noticed any problems playing your usual tunes on this banjo? Considering picking up a Carver.
Sorry; stupid question. You show by many of your other videos that any tune can be played, and played well on either minstrel or modern banjo.
Fretless banjo requires more effort, yes, but one can play any tune on any 5-string banjo. I've discussed this topic before in Q&A videos, for example, on a fretless banjo I use slides much more than on a fretted one, and I'll use way fewer chords shapes on a fretless--keep it simple.