Thanks for sharing that nice tip about using your hand to loosen all the brackets, I too have worked on banjos many years and never thought of that! Nice to see you posting again!
Awesome, thanks for the tips. Both the tape and the tension-hook nuts. I'd love to see a video on what all is involved in removing and possibly fitting a tone-ring. I've been too scared to remove the neck/tone-ring.
I also find getting my head tension exactly right to be very hit or miss. My tuners don't pick up a note and I frequently can't really hear a note from the banjo head so as to match it to a G#. I thus end up tinkering for days before it gets reasonable. A future video perhaps?
Yes I would love to see a future video of tap tuning the banjo head, I think it's up to the persons preference on what tension it's at and from my experience it's not that important to get a G# our of it as long as there is equal tension on the head and it's tight enough where it is resonating nice tone your right to go!
The 5th string on my banjo is sitting on the frets and from a side view the string sits lower than the other strings. The little white button the string sits on before going into the tuning peg sits very deep in the button. Is this normal? Do I need to change the button so the string sits away from the frets? I thank you for any help or input you can give me. I do have pictures I could send you.
RSCMcountertenor , some banjos ar set up that way, while others have the string resting on the "pip" slightly above the fret, so that the string doesn't the fret. If your faith string isn't buzzing and or it's not affecting the playability of at string, it's not something that needs fixing. If it doesn't bother it, I would have it repaired.
Hey guys, I actually made a video about tap tuning using a snark tuner to help identify the note. Do a search of my channel here and see if you can locate it. The title may be head tapping with snark, or something like that.
Thanks for sharing that nice tip about using your hand to loosen all the brackets, I too have worked on banjos many years and never thought of that! Nice to see you posting again!
A capo is an easy way to keep the strings in the nut whilst completing this task.
Awesome, thanks for the tips. Both the tape and the tension-hook nuts. I'd love to see a video on what all is involved in removing and possibly fitting a tone-ring. I've been too scared to remove the neck/tone-ring.
great tip i would love to see more videos like this on setup great video
Dag Nab it ain't that just beautifully elegant and efficient!!
What kind of wrench were you using for the banjo nuts?
I also find getting my head tension exactly right to be very hit or miss. My tuners don't pick up a note and I frequently can't really hear a note from the banjo head so as to match it to a G#. I thus end up tinkering for days before it gets reasonable. A future video perhaps?
John, check out my video on the snark tuner and head tapped note. It could be just what you are looking for
+John Boulding Thanks! I'll do that ;-)
cool, let me know if i can be of any further help.
and remember that a tap note is just for reference. Get the banjo sounding good first and then use the tap to identify where that is.
Yes I would love to see a future video of tap tuning the banjo head, I think it's up to the persons preference on what tension it's at and from my experience it's not that important to get a G# our of it as long as there is equal tension on the head and it's tight enough where it is resonating nice tone your right to go!
The 5th string on my banjo is sitting on the frets and from a side view the string sits lower than the other strings. The little white button the string sits on before going into the tuning peg sits very deep in the button. Is this normal? Do I need to change the button so the string sits away from the frets? I thank you for any help or input you can give me. I do have pictures I could send you.
RSCMcountertenor , some banjos ar set up that way, while others have the string resting on the "pip" slightly above the fret, so that the string doesn't the fret. If your faith string isn't buzzing and or it's not affecting the playability of at string, it's not something that needs fixing. If it doesn't bother it, I would have it repaired.
Hey guys, I actually made a video about tap tuning using a snark tuner to help identify the note. Do a search of my channel here and see if you can locate it. The title may be head tapping with snark, or something like that.
Uh,make that "video"....