Sound Searcher 2: The Tin Can Banjo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- Shane Speal searches for the North Carolina Cake Pan Banjo from the Museum of Appalachia. Print your free plans for this project: www.cigarboxgu...
● C. B. Gitty parts & tools used in this episode: www.cbgitty.co...
● The Museum of Appalachia, Clinton, TN: www.museumofap...
● Visit Shane Speal's Cigar Box Guitar Museum inside Speal's Tavern, New Alexandria PA: spealstavern.com/
That 6-string banjo hack is brilliant! It's a super elegant solution to that common issue found with the instrument.
Great episode Shane. You know, some of the coolest stuff has been made by people who didn't know what they were doing.
There are never enough banjos. Great video and build!
Agreed! But they sound better when you play 'em, Steve!
The giggling after the headstock decoration has got to be my favorite. I really enjoyed the whole thing. Well done, Shane.
That headstock is just so wrong...
That sounds proper old time. Love it.
Sweet sounding little pie-tin banjo!
Thank you!!!
Great stuff. I have a pan I acquired from a local thrift shop. So it's on my list to build. My last was an oil can banjo. Currently I'm working on a cigar box mountain banjo. So I really appreciate seeing how you tackled the task and how the instrument sounds. It sounds and looks great. Definitely a banjo. I love being able to build homemade instruments and playing them. It doesn't get any better and each one always teaches me something new about instruments and music.
Can't wait to see what you build!!!
I can't help but laugh as you nerd out on some of your creative details.
This was brilliant! The mistakes you called out on yourself eases my self-consciousness a bit too... And, I really liked the sound.
You did fantastic! It sounds happy.
Great content. A band saw was a big helper for me. Got a nice one from an estate sale.
Your Improvised spur of the moment changes are more real world vintageness that make these builds. Think of the limited resources the original builders dealt with.
Also, i Iove your limited tools, more realistic of a hobby builder..
Keeping it real!
Powerful words from a fantastic builder. Thank you so much!!!
What a beautiful sweet tone from that pie tin banjo. I really wasn't expecting that. I have to make one!
Nice work Shane.
It would be interesting if they had an interactive funtion where you could press a button and hear the instrument playing. All in all a wonderful exhibit of ingenuity. Thanks for the tour!
That gourd dulcimer shown at 31:32 is so cool! I have to make that happen. My project list gets longer thanks to you. Outstanding video!
Excellent as always!!! Great series, loving it!!!
Even after making a number box guitars. I have learned new ideas watching this. Thanks again Shane.😅😊
Gotta love Randolph County. They are country crafty racecar loving fun people. Several years back, I was at a flea market there in a little town called Sophia chatting it up at my favorite sellers booth. A fella showed me some pictures and videos of a fully functional field cannon he made by sawing the last 4 or 5 feet off of his buddy’s competitive long range artillery gun. He had wooden wheels and everything on it. You can call BS on me if you want. I called BS on this guy and he showed me videos of them firing them. As crazy as that is, this guy was actually the 2nd person I met from Randolph County with a fully functional field cannon. I have a good friend from Level Cross who inherited a field cannon from his uncle and offered to fire it at my wedding. Covid happened and the wedding worked out but the guest list didn’t.
Wow. love that museum, its now on my destinations list. thanks for sharing
@@mikeoitzman8275 bucket list destination. Plan at least a whole day
Another amazing and inspiring episode. When you mentioned this was the theme of the next episode I started working on a cookie tin one. Should be finished this week too.
What a fantastic video! It really made my day! "Sound Searcher" is really cool! Thanks Shane. God bless!
Absolutely love it Shane! Oh how the wheels are turning in my head! 🤘🏻 Thanks for always being an inspiration!
Thanks, Casey!!!
A biscuit tin banjo is going to be a succes! I made mine a few years ago. When using a small banjo bridge the tin turned out to deform significantly tho. It might differ a lot between tins, but I recommend making the bridge elongated and narrow, and tapered towards the ends. Basically the shape of a brace inside an acoustic guitar. Very fun video, I subscribed!
Great job on the banjo, loved the story about the mahogany coffin recovery process and reusing it for the banjo neck. Hopefully at Halloween the former coffin resident isn't coming back to repossess her final resting place! Keep up the good work, Shane!
Oh my! There never was a resident in this coffin!!! LOL
Another good episode.
Another great video very informative. Thanks once again. Keep up with this format.
Fun! That actually has a nice sound.
I’m just drooling to build this guitar. I love this video series and I can’t wait for more of these videos. Thank you Shane Speal.💀🪕
quickly becoming my favorite channel great work man
Thank you! I'm having a blast with this show
Amazing job on the F-holes. Wonderful.
Best video I've seen in a long time!!
I'm glad for this video! I have an antique pie pan and wondered about what type of sound it would make if made into a three string guitar. I don't play banjo but this video makes me wish I did. Anyway, hearing how sweet sounding this instrument turned out makes me eager to get started on mine. It won't be beautiful like yours but hopefully playable. I appreciate your videos. Thank You!
When the neighbor sees you playing on the porch with an SS stamped guitar that will really freak them out!
They all know I'm Shane Speal. Besides, I didn't use lightning bolts. :P
Inspirational! Thank you.
You are so welcome!
You're an inspiration.
Awe shucks! Thank you... and thanks for watching!
I've got a stack of pans like that... time to build!
Cool little banjo!
Thank you!
"Because... why not?"
The 'why nots' are the best parts of the crappy CBGs that I throw together. =)
Amen.
ive built quite a few top end banjos in my kitchen and yeah a band saw is king. if you enjoy makeing musical instruments then a band saw it worth its weight in gold ant there cheap. i got the cheapest one i could afford and 10yrs later still going strong but make sure the blade has good bushings.
that scarf joint is fine, i got some Japanese martin clones from the 60's and 70's that have the scarf jointed in the middle of the headstock,
i just pulled a bunch of laminated bamboo planks and a mahogany chest out of the trash im glad im not the only one hoarding repurposed wood for luthiery 😂
The neck size makes this a good size for a travel tenor banjo.
This was even better than the first one. It sent my mind exploding with thoughts, ideas and questions.
Do you have any more information on Raymond Fairchild’s jawbone fiddle?
Have you ever tried horsehair strings on a banjo? I have read about them but cannot find enough information to try to make my own.
While I love the cigar box guitars my interest has been more in the historic instruments like the traditional African instruments, traditional Appalachian Mountain instruments and early medieval instruments.
I have found where I can get:
Musical Instruments of the Southern Appalachian Mountains by John Rice Irwin
Pickin' Stick: Building a Stringed Instrument
Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
SINFUL TUNES AND SPIRITUALS (Epstein 1977)
BANJO ROOTS AND BRANCHES (ed. Winans 2018)
The Physics of the Violin by Lothar Cremer, John S. Allen (Translator)
Do you have any other papers or books you would recommend getting?
Have you ever tried to build a bowl lyre?
Please do many more of these videos.
I need to get my life straight so I can start building the instruments I have in my minds eye.
Be well and keep on keeping on
Excellent subject. Believe it or not, there was a time when people were forced to create their own entertainment.
So it's a soprano banjo, I like the sound of it and might try remaking one that I messed up on years ago from a neck that my grandpa hand carved out of beech.
Still not much of a player but enjoy your passion. You are doing what your meant to!
Thank you, Ron!
I made my son a chocolate tin guitar/banjo using some old viola strings. Played ok by hand or viola bow.
I always thought about making one with just 2 pie tins joined together for the body 😊
@@Mr.Monster1313 I considered that as I was building this. However, I had the idea for the Stradivarius holes in the back, so I opted for wood.
you can do a neck scarf before the neck shoulders or after it dosent make much off a diffrence really depending on the lengh of wood you have. many Chinese instruments have the scarf after the shoulders on the head and there strong enough to hold tension so no worrys my mate.
I play accordion at my church, but it's a midi instrument so I can have the sound of bass guitar on one side and whatever I want on the other.
Shane, another improvement would be to set the fifth string tuner at the fifth fret as most RB Regular Banjos are set! and at lest 25" scale or longer 26 1/4" then you will be cool!
Nice build, Shane. I thought it sounded great, for a little thing.
Certainly is a little bugger. Gotta make a bigger one. First, I'll be getting my antique one playing again...
Sweet 🫡
Thanks, Barry!
The tin can banjo was definitely made led zeppelin I can hear it in my head
Did you know that the banjo original from the Caribbean as a Bahamian that cool to know 😅
We'll be searching for more banjo stuff in upcoming episodes, including some African instruments that could be the grandfathers of banjo.
I got the same pan
Those darn titles 😂
Awlsome cool
Does a steel bedpan banjo sound crappy? I saw one on the wall in the video😂
i always shape necks by makeing flats until i have a good hexagonal shape. then I take the corners of to make more flats. i make sure all the flats are the same width. to near the shape i want then round them off. To make sure theres no humps or dips then you end up with a factory streight neck. I scarf the headstock the same as you have but make sure that line is cut streight or youll have a twisted head stock compared to the heel. Thats very annoying grrr
Bedpanjo I didn't no the timestamp but that is odd
31:35
Not so sure about putting SS on a banjo, might give a certain unwanted impression.
My name is Shane Speal. This show is called Sound Searchers.
Find an editor dude. We dont need every take of every shot
I tried, I just couldn't make it more than a minute with him mispronouncing Appalachia. It's too much. I can't continue to watch the video.