How to Use an Electronic (Chromatic) Tuner
Jul 29, 2010 banjo guitar tuners
Got an electonic tuner and can’t figure it out? Help is on the way! This video will show you how to use your tuner, and will offer some advice if you don’t think it’s working right. (The Bluegrass Shack – New Athens, IL)
Duration : 0:7:21
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Home Made Banjo
Jul 28, 2010 banjo guitar tuners
Tutorials for building a banjo neck can be found on the web, google gourd banjo neck building, you’ll find many examples. Below is a quick description.
First, I purchased a tambourine and removed those clackers by puling and pushing out the pins holding them in place. I got the tuners from a cast off childs guitar. The new banjo tuners can cost upwards of a hundred bucks depending on various factors. I went for cheep. You should use good guitar tuners. Purchase a no knot banjo tailpiece. Purchase a fifth string banjo tuner. I used a small screw for the fifth string nut.
I got a large sheet of paper and traced around a commercially made banjo neck. I measured out the thickness of the neck and wrote that on the paper. I measured where the holes needed to be for the tuners and marked the holes with a dot right in the center and wrote down the hole size. I turned the neck on it’s side and traced it again.
I glued three pieces of wood about 3/4 in by three inches wide together around thirty in long. The bottom piece I allowed to be 14 inches longer so as to be the drum support. I tapered that piece later but the tapering was unneeded.
Next , I taped/ glued the trimmed pieces of paper on to the dried wood stock. I cut away the parts not covered by the paper.
Note: your top (fretboard side) must be absolutely planed flat and level any deviations will cause buzzing and may make the instrument unplayable.
After installing the hardware (tail piece, tuners, nut, and fifth string nut. ) I drilled pilot holes into the part of the tailpiece that goes under the banjo.
Set the tambourine on the tailpiece skin side up.
Using a straightedge (yard stick) check to be certain that the banjo head and fret board are absolutely level. If not level use a shim to bring the two into alignment or remove some wood with a plane if needed. Check again.
If everthing fits properly then glue the shims in place and then use screws of the appropriate size through the bottom rod/ tailpiece into the tambourine.
Drill a pilot hole for the no knot tail piece. Screw the tail piece into place precisely in the cener of the fret board at the end of the tambourine.
Those are the general steps I used. Good luck and if you have trouble give me a shout. I will do my best to help.
John
Duration : 0:3:43
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BANJO LESSONS
Jul 27, 2010 banjo guitar tuners
BALCONYTV.COM 15/04/2007
PRESENTED BY TOM MILLETT
The banjo is a stringed instrument of African American origin adapted from several African instruments. Africans in the American South and Appalachia fashioned the earliest banjos after instruments they had been familiar with in Africa, with some of the earliest instruments sometimes being called “gourd banjos”. One predecessor to the banjo is called the “Akonting.” It is a spike folk lute played by the Jola tribe of Senegambia. The name banjo commonly is thought to be derived from the Kimbundu term mbanza. Some etymologists derive it from a dialectal pronunciation of “bandore”, though recent research suggests that it may come from a Senegambian term for the bamboo stick used for the instrument’s neck.
Today, the banjo commonly is associated with country and bluegrass music. Historically, however, the banjo occupied a central place in African American traditional music, as well as in the minstrel shows of the 19th century. In fact, African Americans exerted a strong, early influence on the development of both country and bluegrass through the introduction of banjo, and as well through the innovation of musical techniques in the playing of both the banjo and fiddle. Recently, the banjo has enjoyed inclusion in a wide variety of musical genres, including pop crossover music.
The modern banjo comes in a variety of different forms, including four- (plectrum and tenor banjos) and five-string versions. A six-string version, tuned and played similar to a guitar, is gaining popularity. In almost all of its forms the banjo’s playing is characterised by a fast strumming or arpeggiated right hand, although there are many different playing styles.
The banjo consists of a wooden or metal rim with a plastic polyester (PET film) or calf or goat skin drumhead stretched across it, a neck mounted on the side of the rim, a tailpiece mounted opposite the neck, four or five strings, and a bridge. The woods used in construction vary, but are often combinations of maple, walnut, and ebony for fingerboards, pegheads, and the tops of bridges. In the five-string banjo, the fifth peg is normally on the side of the neck, although some English versions (the Zither banjo) mount the fifth string tuner on the tuning head with the others, and route the string through a tube in the neck where it exits near the fifth fret.
The earliest banjos were unfretted, like the African instruments that inspired them, but most banjos today are fretted. Banjo strings are most commonly metal, although nylon and gut can be used on some banjos, especially those played in the classical style. The two most common modern day acoustic banjos are the resonator banjo which has a detachable chamber, or resonator, on the back of the rim and the open back banjo which does not have a resonator. There are also solid body electric banjos; one such banjo, the Crossfire (manufactured by Deering), has two powerful magnetic pickups under the drumhead. A metal footed bridge ensures that pickups draw sound from both the strings and the head.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo
Tune in again tomorrow!!!
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Guitar Standard Tuning
Jul 20, 2010 banjo guitar tuners
PLEASE CLICK MORE INFO AND READ THIS
Standard Tuning E,B,G,D,A,e
The guitar isn’t out of tune so don’t say it is. I used a tuner while making this video and I used one after the video was made. I would know if it was out of tune.
Okay, don’t complain about the distortion and blame the distortion for you tuning your guitar wrong. YOU tuned your own guitar wrong. Just practice a bit more and suck it up. If you have trouble because of the distortion then just use a tuner. Not a big deal. And if you’re holding a tuner to your speaker checking my video to see if I was in tune….. Why aren’t you using your tuner on your own guitar and then you at me for tuning your guitar wrong. Not my fault, not the distortions fault, and it’s not YouTube’s fault… It’s your fault.
The video is marked as xREDxGUYx at the end. Don’t say this isn’t my video because it is!!! xREDxGUYx is my old youtube account which I deleted. So please don’t try it!
Duration : 0:1:51
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