A banjo is the sum of its parts, but some parts are more equal than others. each part snugged up to the right tension and safely in their places. Since a banjo is an accumulation of parts, an heroic player may want to try and change other things but for the most part the idea is to keep the banjo at an optimal state, i.e. This video is aimed at the player who wants to maintain his or her instrument, not someone who wants to make major changes or anything past changing the head.īanjos come with disposable parts: the strings, heads, bridges (which eventually wear out) and some parts such as the tailpiece (some of which have a tendency to break) or tuners which can be changed out. Most of this is common sense if you know how a banjo works but there is a scare factor when it comes to messing with your expensive banjo.
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What I can do is give you some ideas about how to setup your banjo and where the limits of an amateur banjo mechanic are.
Because there are so many different banjos, so many different head sizes, so many ways to attach the neck to the rim and so many types of tone rings, I can't be specific about all of these banjos. I've made a 40 minute video on this subject but it is, by necessity, incomplete because this is a wide and deep subject. In order to tame this tendency you have to know a few principles that will help you setup your banjo without causing it to explode. A banjo has about 100 parts, give or take a few, all of which are conspiring against you to make your banjo sound terrible.
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