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tbrannon
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Username: tbrannon

Post Number: 215
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 12:41 am:   Edit Post

Interesting-
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bsee
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Username: bsee

Post Number: 1363
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Saturday, October 28, 2006 - 7:14 am:   Edit Post

It looks like an Ashbory on a longer scale and real wood.
bigredbass
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Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 1065
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:47 am:   Edit Post

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
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Username: tbrannon

Post Number: 216
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 1:25 pm:   Edit Post

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
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Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 1066
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 1:58 pm:   Edit Post

Does Homeland Security know about this? Thank God he doesn't live in Nashville ! !

J o e y
57basstra
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Username: 57basstra

Post Number: 469
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 2:02 pm:   Edit Post

http://www.jobass.com/pixninfo.htm

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