| Author | Message | ||
| tbrannon
Advanced Member Username: tbrannon Post Number: 215 Registered: 11-2004 |
Interesting- link | ||
| bsee
Senior Member Username: bsee Post Number: 1363 Registered: 3-2004 |
It looks like an Ashbory on a longer scale and real wood. | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1065 Registered: 9-2002 |
It's amazing that so many acoustic string instruments follow the layout of the violin family. When I worked at Gibson, I found a booklet that they published covering their history. Back in Lloyd Loar's days, it was quite the thing to have string orchestras, no doubt an alternative to the large, Souza-esque brass ensembles of those days, between WWOne and the Depression. There were these amazing pictures of mandolin and banjo orchestras, with the group divvied up between mandolin, mandola, mandocello, and mandobasses, like the way the bowed strings are divided by range. These were playig ragtime arrangements, the hip-hop of the day. But I'll truly never forget this photo of a bass banjo ( . . . just the name is terrifying): Four-string, about 5 feet tall standing up on it's endpin (!), with the head about 2 feet in diameter. J o e y | ||
| tbrannon
Advanced Member Username: tbrannon Post Number: 216 Registered: 11-2004 |
Joey- Have a look at Bruce Johnson's website- he's built a bass banjo similar to what you describe. http://www.xstrange.com/bassbanjo.htm Toby | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1066 Registered: 9-2002 |
Does Homeland Security know about this? Thank God he doesn't live in Nashville ! ! J o e y | ||
| 57basstra
Senior Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 469 Registered: 4-2005 |
http://www.jobass.com/pixninfo.htm |
