Liberty on a 12-inch Chuck Lee Tu-Ba-Phone

[mangawhio1]

Great sounding banjo and your usual sweet and laidback style. Muchas gracias.

[thepolewillgetyou]

looks like playing banjo is really meditative for you. it is for me as well. nice playing and a great sounding banjo

[BOB962691]

Hello ! Merci pour ces vidéos ; Une musique Très agréable, très bien interprétée.

Un grand bonjour de France.

Robert

[zeppmusic]

@BOB962691 C'est mois qui dois dire merci.. J'aime beaucoup l'Hexagon. J'ai vécu à Lyon pendant quelques années il y'a vingt ans.

[BOB962691]

@BOB962691 Je suis en Touraine. (pays des chateaux) et vous ?

Guiutariste en ce moment, avec un groupe (Atlantis Group", nous jouons "The Shadows" (Voir YouTube)

Je fait également de la musique Trad. avec un ami, soliste, bouzouki, banjo, flute, en amateurs.

Très cordialement

Robert

[fralin1966]

great sound love your music been an inspiration to me

[d2majzoub]

Thanks for the Tu-Ba-Phone demo. I'm glad I found it. I could watch your vids all day long. Just lovely.

[banjukebox]

Thanks for posting a great version of Liberty. I learned the tune many years ago and just recently rediscovered it.

[Threestaves]

you da man

[ajbadger]

How much does an instrument like that go for and do you have it in stock now?

Thanks.

[CleanCountryMusic]

What is the tuning for that one?

[zeppmusic]

I played it here in double C (gCGCD). It's a fiddle tune and usually in D, so I should have capoed to aDADE, but I was too lazy to find a capo...

[Jarrahnut]

bujifan ... did you mean tickled plunk?

[bujifan]

i love the music by the way and was not tring to be disrespectful sir

[zeppmusic]

Thanks! No "disrespect" taken, BTW. I get a lot of well deserved, good natured teasing about my deadpan expression when I play.

[bujifan]

wow you look tickeld pink your mood right there on your face nice to see

[zeppmusic]

Yeah, yeah... :-)

[Jarrahnut]

Donald ... did I detect the faintest indication of a smile at seventeen seconds?

[zeppmusic]

Coulda been gas... No, wait, that's when I realized that I had forgotten to repeat the A part. Thus the "Oh well" eyebrow shrug, too. Seriously.

[guywolff]

All of these videos and MP3's on your site have been so helpful Don, to a forgetful mind like mine. I have followed most of these tunes around with some really great fiddle players over the past 40 years but have,on the whole stayed out of their way enough that I loose the essential bits when trying to remember the tune on my own .. Thanks for all of this... yours Guy

[Jarrahnut]

What CDs have you available, Donald? And what do you consider to be your best? I must have a look at the Amazon site ... and order one of your CDs as soon as possible. Love your style! Where have you been hiding all these years? I've been "into" the folk music scene for nearly fifty years now ... and I'm ashamed to say that, until a couple of days ago, I'd never heard of you. Please forgive me.

[zeppmusic]

Sorry, no CD, though all my MP3s are downloadable.  I'm just too busy to record, and I don't perform, so I've sorta been "hiding" in the open. As near as I can tell, there would be no reason to have heard of me...unless you frequent the internet banjo sites, where I tend to waste a lot of my time! :-)

Thanks again!

Cheers!

[zeppmusic]

Thanks! I, Donald ZEPP, am the proprietor of ZEPP Country Music, an acoustic stringed instrument shop in North Carolina, USA. I have 60 or 70 demo videos here on my YouTube page (zeppmusic) and lots of banjo information and another 100 or so downloadable MP3s on my website, zeppmusic then dot then com (sure do wish we could type URLs here...)

Thanks again for the kind words!

Cheers,

ZEPP

[Jarrahnut]

Beautiful. I've put it into my favourites. My apologies ... but who are you? I love your graceful style. I've only just this minute discovered your splendid banjo work (I had been looking for a version of "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine" and just happened to stumble on your video clip).

Best wishes from Colin in wonderful Western Australia.

[plainanywhere]

this made my day :)

[kjskipper]

I sent you a BH message, but wanted to ask here as well, in case you visited here first: do you recall which Moon bridge was on this Marble Falls when you recorded this video?

And by the way: GREAT PLAYING. When I grow up, I want to play just like you.

Regards,

Ken

[zeppmusic]

I usually use medium Moon bridges with a Tu-Ba-Phone tone ring; the height would be chosen to get the action where I like it, of course.

But, this was a used banjo that came to us with a Moon, and I really don't recall what was on it!

Cheers!

[readchesterton]

Chuck just built me a "badger" come and listen short scale all cherry...

[readchesterton]

Your playin' makes me smile :)

[zeppmusic]

Well, thanks! I smile inside all the time! :-)

[banjony]

I beg of you to smile when you play!!!!

[zeppmusic]

But I do smile when I screw up in a large fashion... :-)

[OldtimeFiddler]

Man thats awesome! I have never heard liberty that slow...I like it better like that!! The people I know play it on the fiddle so fast you cant really get a feel for it. Great Job!

[pit032]

Man I love the sound of the low D string on a 12 inch pot..You can just send that banjo right to my house Zepp no charge, I wont tell anyone, LOL!

[zeppmusic]

Ooh, too late! It's sold! 8-)

Cheers,

Z