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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:13:37 -0700
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] Contrabanjo
Craig said:
>B0, eh? Please tell me the scale is at least 34". I saw an episode
>of "New Yankee Workshop" where a guy was making fretless
>5-string banjo's. Alas, not bass, but they have a nice sound.Yes, exactly 34"... A little research turned up a whole web page
about the axe (aka "banjozilla"), at Johnson's Extremely Strange
Instruments - see http://www.xstrange.com/bassbanjo.htm
He says that future instruments (if anyone is interested) would be
more like string basses: 4 string, fretless, 40-42" scale, for around
$1,200. Anyone interested?Enjoy!
Grant
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