Baroque Banjo / 19 Tone Axe-Mando

Hi All

Been lurking around these boards for sometime but just posting now
my instrument is done; Whilst computers have undoubtedly been a huge
boost to microtonality I am always interested/very keen to see new
non-12tet accoustic instruments

Anyway I have breifly played around with a couple of tunings and
decided on 19TET as my main direction;

My Baroque Banjo in 19TET/EDO;

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/microtone/MeantoneBanjar.jpg

There is obviously a bit of a tradition, microtonally speaking, to
build your own instruments; Fans of neanderthal luthiery will delight
in the original prototype for the Baroque Banjo; the "19 Tone Axe
Mando"; - basically the neck off an old dead electric guitar
(defretted and refretted in 19tet) stuck on the body of a useless
cheap mandolin with pine cornering for a bridge and all finished off
with a can of paint some yob threw in our garden - I intended to add
a 5th drone string banjo style but never got around to it;

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/microtone/19ToneAxemando.jpg

All best
Robin

Hi All

Been lurking around these boards for sometime but just posting now
my instrument is done; Whilst computers have undoubtedly been a huge
boost to microtonality I am always interested/very keen to see new
non-12tet accoustic instruments

Anyway I have breifly played around with a couple of tunings and
decided on 19TET as my main direction;

My Baroque Banjo in 19TET/EDO;

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/microtone/MeantoneBanjar.jpg

There is obviously a bit of a tradition, microtonally speaking, to
build your own instruments; Fans of neanderthal luthiery will delight
in the original prototype for the Baroque Banjo; the "19 Tone Axe
Mando"; - basically the neck off an old dead electric guitar
(defretted and refretted in 19tet) stuck on the body of a useless
cheap mandolin with pine cornering for a bridge and all finished off
with a can of paint some yob threw in our garden - I intended to add
a 5th drone string banjo style but never got around to it;

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/microtone/19ToneAxemando.jpg

nice work! -Carl

At 03:36 AM 5/30/2007, you wrote:
>Hi All
>
> Been lurking around these boards for sometime but just posting now
>my instrument is done; Whilst computers have undoubtedly been a huge
>boost to microtonality I am always interested/very keen to see new
>non-12tet accoustic instruments
>
>Anyway I have breifly played around with a couple of tunings and
>decided on 19TET as my main direction;
>
>My Baroque Banjo in 19TET/EDO;
>
>http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/microtone/MeantoneBanjar.jpg
>
>There is obviously a bit of a tradition, microtonally speaking, to
>build your own instruments; Fans of neanderthal luthiery will delight
>in the original prototype for the Baroque Banjo; the "19 Tone Axe
>Mando"; - basically the neck off an old dead electric guitar
>(defretted and refretted in 19tet) stuck on the body of a useless
>cheap mandolin with pine cornering for a bridge and all finished off
>with a can of paint some yob threw in our garden - I intended to add
>a 5th drone string banjo style but never got around to it;
>
>http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/microtone/19ToneAxemando.jpg
>
>All best
>Robin

Sweet. Let's hear some soundfiles!

I got this cheap banjo (regular ol' 5-string with resonator) I defretted long ago and never play, and now I wanna get it fretted in 31-tet.

~D.

----- Original Message ----- From: "meantone19" <meantone19@...>
To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 5:40 AM
Subject: [MMM] Baroque Banjo / 19 Tone Axe-Mando

> Hi All
>
> Been lurking around these boards for sometime but just posting now
> my instrument is done; Whilst computers have undoubtedly been a huge
> boost to microtonality I am always interested/very keen to see new
> non-12tet accoustic instruments
>
> Anyway I have breifly played around with a couple of tunings and
> decided on 19TET as my main direction;
>
> My Baroque Banjo in 19TET/EDO;
>
> http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/microtone/MeantoneBanjar.jpg

It seems I am going to have to think about making a recording at
somepoint down the line...

PLEASE make a 31-TET banjo !

Daniel Stearns - I am sure I read your name in connection with a JI
banjo - am I right on this?

Robin

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Danny Wier" <dawiertx@...>
wrote:
>
> Sweet. Let's hear some soundfiles!
>
> I got this cheap banjo (regular ol' 5-string with resonator) I
defretted
> long ago and never play, and now I wanna get it fretted in 31-tet.
>
> ~D.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "meantone19" <meantone19@...>
> To: <MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 5:40 AM
> Subject: [MMM] Baroque Banjo / 19 Tone Axe-Mando
>
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > Been lurking around these boards for sometime but just posting now
> > my instrument is done; Whilst computers have undoubtedly been a
huge
> > boost to microtonality I am always interested/very keen to see new
> > non-12tet accoustic instruments
> >
> > Anyway I have breifly played around with a couple of tunings and
> > decided on 19TET as my main direction;
> >
> > My Baroque Banjo in 19TET/EDO;
> >
> >
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa108/microtone/MeantoneBanjar.jpg
>