KP2009JUN28 BETTER BANJO BUREAU
KONCHOK.PENDAY
RE: BETTER BANJO BUREAU
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mgrego...@core.com wrote:
Someone on the Banjo Hangout called my attention to your design.
http://www.banjohangout.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=151463
I wish you all the possible success.
If you haven't got a patent yet, it might be in your best interest to
get one as soon as possible, since the positioning of the 5th peg AT the
tailpiece has been around since at least 1999.
I did enjoy looking at your website.
Feel free to tour mine
My banjos can be seen on my own website
http://littlebanjos.lunare.net
See me & my SQUARED EEL banjo on the Y'all tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97EfvhFgRBY
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net-p...@net-prophet.net replied:
Mike <mgrego...@core.com> wrote:
> Someone on the Banjo Hangout called my attention to your design.
> http://www.banjohangout.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=151463
WAY COOL!
Thanks for pointing my attention to it.
What a fascinating thread!
I''m so tickled to have provoked it!
I looked at your site
with great interest.
What interesting
instruments!
I really like your
"demystification"
approach to instruments.
I like the suggestion
to make the 5th string
the same length as the
others. Obvious, in
retrospect. I like to
fret the fifth string.
I made mine by going to
my local banjo shop and
pawing through their
junk parts box for a
couple of $3 parts
I thought I could
make work OK.
If you're building the banjo
yourself, you can pick any
parts you want and tailor
the banjo to it. I'd love
to see what YOU do with it.
> I wish you all the possible success.
Thanks Muchly!
It turns out that legally,
when you put it online,
it's public domain.
Anyway, Bart Veerman
beat me to it. I didn't
get it until the 1980's.
> If you haven't got a patent yet, it might be in your best interest to
> get one as soon as possible, since the positioning of the 5th peg AT
> the tailpiece has been around since at least 1999.
It's all moot now.
> I did enjoy looking at your website.
Thanks!
Feel free to browse around.
> Feel free to tour mine
I did!
I like your instruments a lot!
They show great imagination, and
enormous disrespect for convention.
I'm rather fond of that,
as shown by my site.
> My banjos can be seen on my own website
> http://littlebanjos.lunare.net
Fascinating!
> See me & my SQUARED EEL banjo on the Y'all tube
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97EfvhFgRBY
My system has no sound,
but I played the video.
I love your squared eel!
I know a street musician
who plays drums JUST LIKE
that. He made a set on
legs like a marimba.
Have you thought of
designing a banjo
made of generic parts
and materials that are
highly interchangeable?
Maybe a molded composite neck?
Cheap doesn't have to mean schlock.
I enjoy beautiful inlay! It makes
an instrument another form of art.
But it doesn't sound any sweeter.
I'd like to see a
super-cheap banjo
that needs no
maintenance, and
sounds great,
because it's
designed to be
easily made well.
It can still
be beautiful!
But not ornately inlaid.
I've really wanted an
instrument that I've
never seen in 25+years.
I suspect you are
the guy to build it.
Take a long wood baseball bat.
Put five bass strings on it.
And six guitar strings. And
a few to cover mandlin/violin.
Wrap them all the way around
the bat, so you muffle the
strings on the "back" of the
neck, while you play the free
strings on the neck "front".
Mold in a groove to hold
two half-circle frets for
each note. Leave them out
and play it fretless, with
the grooves marking the
notes, or put the frets in.
Use ?steinberger? tuning machines.
Now you can BOW the instrument,
like a violin, cello, or base.
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So now you can play ALL
the stringed instruments,
PLUCKED OR BOWED AND
FRETLESS OR FRETTED,
from the lowest to highest,
on the very same instrument,
and shift between them at will!
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The shorter strings leave room on
the neck for the control panel.
Don't choose which stringed
instrument to play:
PLAY THEM ALL!
I don't see how to easily
banjonate the instrument.
Can you now add the
tone of the resonating
skin electronically to
the clean electric signal
from the steel strings?
That would be sweet!
Then we could fit a
banjonated BOWIE MARTIN
in a long pool cue case!
Store the bow in the
hollow center core!
Wouldn't that be slick!
Maybe we could
patent THAT?
Ooooops! Too Late!
Thanks for writing!
O
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