I was wondering if anyone else on the mandolin forum also plays tenor banjo or some other style of early jazz banjo?
I've played since I was a teenager and played Dixieland parades and other gigs in New Orleans. I've used Chicago tuning (DGBE like bari uke), and regular tenor banjo tuning, CGDA, but mostly keep mine tuned to GDAE like an octave mandolin, mostly to make switching between mandolin and banjo easy. I've also used guitar banjos, but do not have one right now.
Plectrum I never played, I couldn't see the advantages of the CGBD tuning other than making it easy for a "classical" banjo player to use a flatpick and drop the 5th string and imitate tenor banjo parts.
So who else plays traditional jazz on 4 string banjo?
N.O. jazz gig about 15 years ago.....
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