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La Bastringue
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I decided to revisit La Bastringue, a tune I learned early on but haven’t played in a long time, featured in two settings on # 158, a convertible 15-fret tenor banjo that can be strung either as a 4-string tenor, or in standard 5-string banjo fashion by way of a tunneled fifth string. What spurred me initially with building this one was that I had wondered what it would be like to play melody on an instrument tuned in fifths while being able to play clawhammer or fingerstyle with an available thumb string, or flat-picked omitting the latter. The result was a bit awkward, but possibly, it could be doable if more time is devoted to it. • The neck itself is symmetrical, only bumping the nut slots over a hair to give a bit more space for the fifth string as it rides out the tunnel, resting directly on the fret. This allows the string to be out of the way, and eliminates the need for a pip that would get in the way of the fourth string being played and fretted. A bit of a nod to Zach Hoyt with his convertible guitar banjo/5+1 hybrid. It could also be strung much like a baritone or tenor ukulele banjo, depending on the strings used. I’ve not tried either of these setups yet. • It has a 19” scale length. I came by way of this by cutting down a 25.4” pre-slotted and radiused guitar fretboard at the 5th fret, yielding me roughly 19” (as I was going for a whole number, and something close to 20”). I ended up plugging the face dot holes at what would now be the 2nd and 4th frets, and leaving the rest as they aligned with typical position patterns, adding two additional dots at the 12th fret to balance it. For the time being, I strung it with a set of standard steel banjo strings (.010, .012, .016, .023w, .010), tuned up to cGCEG (gDGBD, capo 5), and a set of GHS custom Irish tenor strings (.014, .024w, .032w, .042w) for GDAE tuning, as you’ll see and hear these examples in the video. • The neck is two-piece mahogany with a walnut and maple center strip. This banjo took a little tinkering and a new dowel being reset to get the neck and action set as intended. While fitting the tenon of the new dowel, the heel cracked mostly along the glue line on the treble side, but went back together without much notice after gluing it back. The fretboard is rosewood. I used the cut off portion to create the peghead overlay and heel cap, so not much of it went to waste. The position dots are tortoloid I had left over. The rim is an older one, being 10 3/4” in diameter with a 1/4” steel tone ring on top. It is dark stained with birdseye maple veneer. The bridge is slotted for both 4-string and 5-string configurations (marking the latter slots with dimples on either side to make the slots a bit clearer and indicate which is which). • For sale here: https://www.banjohangout.org/classifi...
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