Making My Other Banjo Jealous [VLOG?]
Well, I have been horrible about uploading here. Sorry about that! I will have to get to it some more. I was recently gifted an old Kay tenor banjo. It is said to be from the 1930s, but I can't be sure the head looks different. If anyone knows about it, then please tell me what you know! I attached the strings, and broke one (they were old) and so I put another string in its place. it strummed fine, but when I fretted, nothing happened. This was because the action was so low that the highest fret got in the way. So, I adjusted the "coordinator rod" which is a rod inside the pot (round part) of the banjo that adjusts the action among other things. Long story short, I ended up going on to YouTube and finding a howto video and I was able to correctly adjust the rod. If anyone is interested, maybe I can upload some banjo how to to PeerTube. I was afraid of breaking the strings, so I tuned it to a chord tuning. similar to a five string banjo. When I get new strings, I will tune it up to the
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