Banjo Giganto

 posted by John on 11.28.07 @ 4:38 pm
 Tags:

How about some banjo frivolity for a Wednesday afternoon? Here is a YouTube clip featuring a bass banjo.

These were not too uncommon in the 1920s when banjo bands and orchestras enjoyed their brief window of popularity. They filled the role of an upright bass, with a bass scale neck and fingerboard mounted to a very large banjo body.

The banjo that ate New York?

YouTube Preview Image

Permalink  |  Email This Post Email This Post   |  Print  |  Top  |  1 Comment
1 Comment
Leave a comment
Comments are open and unmoderated for our registered users, only your first comment will require approval before publication. Comments do not necessarily reflect the views of The Bluegrass Blog. Obscene, abusive, silly, or annoying remarks may be deleted, but the fact that particular comments remain on the site in no way constitutes an endorsement of their content by The Bluegrass Blog.

comment #40190 By slowpockets on 11.28.07 8:41 pm

Banjo-zilla?

TrackBack URI

You must

  • Register
    • and Log in in to leave comments.

    Related Posts

    Revenge of Banjo

    Greg Cahill, the fearless leader of Special Consensus, sent along a link to a hilarious bit of video...

    Triple banjo bash on YouTube

    As we could have predicted, a video capture of the recent triple banjo performance on The Late Show with...

    Vintage LRB on YouTube

    Lonesome River Band founder and former member Tim Austin has posted a number of video clips on YouTube...

    Gold Tone cello banjos

    The folks at Gold Tone have introduced a number of new banjos - cello banjos, that is. These jumbos...

    Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy this weekend

    I'll be teaching at this weekend's Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy near Gatlinburg, TN so my posting over...

    Merlefest videos on YouTube

    With more than 75,000 music lovers in attendance - a great many with video recorders of some kind - it...

    Banjo band – boon or bane?

    Our friends at ukbluegrass.com have really started a ruckus... In their post about We Banjo 3, an...

    Toby and Rob on Ellen

    Here's a YouTube clip of Toby Keith singing Please Come Home For Christmas on the Ellen show December...

    Punch Brothers on YouTube

    We had posted back in August when Chris Thile and his merry band of super pickers announced a three day...

    Young Turks Hatin’ on Bluegrass

    Ignorance on parade... Is there anything more obnoxious than people who believe something is worthless...

    Stringdusters in Europe on YouTube

    Chris Pandolfi, banjo player with The Infamous Stringdusters, is debuting his talent as a documentary...

    The Cabinet in World Music & World BBQ 2008, Thailand

    I just know shortly from my friend, Ton Indian of the arrival of The Cabinet for jamming in Thailand...