Just a quick comment and an set of following questions.
I have recently acquired both a tenor guitar and tenor bajno -- they are both vintage ear Gibsons and, I would suggest, more or less of compable quality i.e., a 1936 TG-00 versus a 1929 TB-3. I have both tuned CGDA.
However, I have found that while I am making pretty good progress in translating my mandolin family techniques to the guitar -- the banjo is a different story. It seems to be to be a much harder and more demanding instrument (for me) to play.
I find myself making clams -- not because I hit the wrong note but rather because I miss or overpick, or just "tangle up" in string on the banjo.
Both have a 23 inch scale (584 mm) scale but the there seems to be considerably less tension on the banjo strings (0.009; 0.012; 0.022; 0.028) then the guitar (0.010; 0.014; 0.022; 0.032) so the banjo strings feel "floppier".
Therefore, they give way to the pick more easily and as a result I seem to hangup or get caught on them breaking my pattern or the less tension leads to my touching other strings producing unwanted sounds.
On the advice of folks like Jill McAuley, Barbara Schlutz and Mike Keyes I have switched to a much thinner pick (circa 0.5 to 0.63 mm) for the banjo (vesus 1.5 mm for the guitar) but I still not there on the TB!
Others find this to be the case?
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