From an article about Harry Manx and his instruments in Guitar Player Dec 2008 (pg 64):
"My banjo is a modified Gold Tone with a contact pickup. I string it with heavy strings, tune it down low to open C, and boost the low end to make it sound big and fat.
(This article is available at the harrymanx website under Press/Epk.)
This is not a banjo.....some people call them six string banjos which is really a marketing gimmick.A banjo has four string and one drone string and is tuned in open G to make use of the open position scales.My point is that calling this resonator guitar a banjo is a bit like calling a crayola crayon a paintbrush........However Harry Manx is a badass and one of my very favorite musicians ever.He spent quite a bit of time in India and took a wife and learned the Indian scale system
From an article about Harry Manx and his instruments in Guitar Player Dec 2008 (pg 64):
"My banjo is a modified Gold Tone with a contact pickup. I string it with heavy strings, tune it down low to open C, and boost the low end to make it sound big and fat.
(This article is available at the harrymanx website under Press/Epk.)
suemcmurtrie2 4 months ago
It has 24 notes instead of the 12 everyone else uses and so there are notes that we dont even recognise as notes
jdylan1984 4 months ago
This is not a banjo.....some people call them six string banjos which is really a marketing gimmick.A banjo has four string and one drone string and is tuned in open G to make use of the open position scales.My point is that calling this resonator guitar a banjo is a bit like calling a crayola crayon a paintbrush........However Harry Manx is a badass and one of my very favorite musicians ever.He spent quite a bit of time in India and took a wife and learned the Indian scale system
jdylan1984 4 months ago
Brilliant! What a guy! Is this six string bano a Banjitar? And if is - where can
I buy one?
flyfifer51 7 months ago
Great stuff.I think he's playing a gitjo!!
1ArtfulBodger 6 months ago
Wow, VC on banjo. Who'd a thunk. Nice cover with a unique sound of its own.
mtraas3 8 months ago
Never heard anything like this. It's great!
flooflox 8 months ago
This guy is frickin awesome
conversationscafe1 11 months ago
Hello, friend. Thank you. Words escape me. I usually can't shut up, so that is the highest complement I can pay anyone.
tuviabolyki 1 year ago 3