Always look forward to your videos. I enjoy your taste in music as much as your performances! Thank you again !

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Originally posted by GMB

Always look forward to your videos. I enjoy your taste in music as much as your performances! Thank you again !

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Jerry, thank you so much!

Nice playing and nice little banjo! :-)

you play with the joy and frashness of a teenager ;-)

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Originally posted by banjopaolo

Nice playing and nice little banjo! :-)

you play with the joy and frashness of a teenager ;-)

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Thank you, Paolo!

Marco, I enjoyed this very much, you are swinging like crazy here!

As we age, life becomes a series of workarounds but as long as we are still playing music, everything is okay!

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Originally posted by Laurence Diehl

Marco, I enjoyed this very much, you are swinging like crazy here!

As we age, life becomes a series of workarounds but as long as we are still playing music, everything is okay!

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Thank you Laurence, you're right: don't give up the ship! 

A really top shelf performance on a wonderful tune Marco ....... yes sir!.

Sorry about ''Emaline' popping up Marco, sometimes accidents happen.    

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Originally posted by Don Lewers

A really top shelf performance on a wonderful tune Marco ....... yes sir!.

Sorry about ''Emaline' popping up Marco, sometimes accidents happen.    

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Thank you for your comment. What's about "Emaline"? I don't know. 

Marco, when I posted my comment above, I thought the music for '' Pennies From Heaven'' was in my attachments, I could'nt find it, and accidently clicked ''Emaline,'' that appeared on my reply.

I've finaly tracked down a copy of ''Pennies From Heaven,'' and it's a good chart, the same one I used on a past lesson.
So the music, and my clip, are finaly posted ...... I hope!

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Originally posted by Don Lewers

Marco, when I posted my comment above, I thought the music for '' Pennies From Heaven'' was in my attachments, I could'nt find it, and accidently clicked ''Emaline,'' that appeared on my reply.

I've finaly tracked down a copy of ''Pennies From Heaven,'' and it's a good chart, the same one I used on a past lesson.
So the music, and my clip, are finaly posted ...... I hope!

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Hi Don, I understood what the problem was. I apologize, but I don't master the English language very well. It's really nice to hear your technique on the plectrum banjo , which creates a unique sound, never been heard by other banjoists. I think that your originality depends both on the way you hold the plectrum between your fingers, both on the angle and distance from the bridge with which the strings are struck, and on the position of the palm, which seems to rest on the bridge creating the effect of a mute. I tried to copy everything with a tenor, but I didn't get this result: tenor and plectrum, despite being very similar (sometimes I can't distinguish them immediately, looking at a photo) have a quite different timbre, due not so much to the different length of the neck, but rather to the different tuning, much less "violent" and more melodious in the plectrum version. When the plectrum banjo was an almost unknown instrument in Italy, a friend of mine, not having found one to buy, bought a tenor and tuned it like a plectrum, with excellent results: this makes me think that the most important element that differentiates the two instruments is the tuning, which creates different inversions of the chords with rather different musical effects.