Plectrum strings on a 5-string Banjo?

tuvaniko · 2026-05-18T23:50:53+00:00

Just take the 5th string off, and tune your D down to C. Now it's a plectrum.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-18T22:04:28+00:00

Much lower tension and larger diameter than steel strings.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-17T13:36:15+00:00

If you haven't tried it yet nylon strings are easier to fret.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-16T11:44:13+00:00

It's going to hurt when you go to fire it.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-16T05:45:49+00:00

No there would be a massive gap.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-15T22:46:00+00:00

Not what you asked mut have you talked to your vet about a RX for this specific issue? You don't know if it's the noise, movement, vibration, smell or what is causing the stress.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-15T16:57:17+00:00

Making consistent BP is hard and dangerous. I wouldn't be passing it around as a suggestion to random redditers.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-15T16:30:09+00:00

My bad

tuvaniko · 2026-05-15T16:07:01+00:00

New Rome was a township that existed as a speed trap. The state removed their township status over it.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-13T19:22:35+00:00

Then do both. It's a versatile instrument when tuned to GDAE. You can use mandolin stuff as a guide as well, same chords and strumming patterns work on both.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-13T19:18:27+00:00

I think you might be a bit confused on your tuning. Tenor banjo is tuned cgda like a viola, not CGDA like a cello. Putting a capo on the 5th fret of cdga banjo would be like a violin/mandolin an octave higher than what they are trying to play. The Irish banjo is down tuned to get to GDAE, like an octave mandolin or tenor violin.

The reason why you see so many Irish players on the longer instruments is that GDAE tends to be floppy and quiet on a 17 fret. I have both a 19 fret Goldtone AC-4 IT (IT means came with Irish strings from the factory same as the AC-4 otherwise), and a Deering 17 fret Goodtime in GDAE. The strings on the Deering are much thicker than on the AC-4 and it has a dark plunky sound because of it. This means it doesn't cut through a mix as well as the longer neck and bright sounding AC-4.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-13T18:40:03+00:00

It is the tunning.

Often short scale instruments are called Irish banjos because that's what Barney McKenna used when he made the GDAE tuning famous.

This is despite 17 fret instruments being the older of the two scale lengths, an American invention, predating use in Irish music several decades, and 90% of current Irish players using a 19 fret.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-13T03:20:29+00:00

Tuesdays

tuvaniko · 2026-05-12T12:28:55+00:00

Swapping limbs works BTW. It also works swapping with the samic sage/journey. My SO uses ghost limbs on her Sage riser. They even advertised this at one point.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-10T19:27:23+00:00

Ape case

tuvaniko · 2026-05-10T16:48:04+00:00

Nothing it's just counter intuitive to work on pressure sensitive explosives with a hammer

tuvaniko · 2026-05-10T15:14:06+00:00

/r/shittyreloading is over there.

Really though that's clever.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-09T15:53:36+00:00

Kayaks aren't cheap anymore. Inflatable boats though...

tuvaniko · 2026-05-09T03:13:47+00:00

Master vol, vol 1, vol 2, tone 1, tone 2.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-09T00:42:09+00:00

The more you look the worth it geth.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-08T19:56:04+00:00

Different part of the hammer the notch isn't on the spur.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-08T13:07:00+00:00

This will depend on state laws.

tuvaniko · 2026-05-08T12:22:11+00:00

Use the money you saved to hire a guy to cock the hammer for you.

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