AreaGuy

Hey all, I've recently switched out my steel strings on my Deering Goodtime 22 fret open back with some La Bella 17 Classic Plain End Nylon Silver-plated wound Banjo String. I really much prefer the feel and sound of nylon (or at least non steel) strings, but they just feel looser and "floppier", which is making some things like pull offs and bends more difficult and just generally seems like they move around and are harder to "find" when I'm playing.

So, curious if anyone has changed out to nylons or nylguts or whatnot that were a bit higher tension. I've seen some "ultra high tension" strings...but I'm not sure I want that.

I've got a Gold King tenor banjo uke I've been using to learn clawhammer. (Loving it! Working my way through Aaron Keim's book on clawhammer.) One of my strings broke, which means I've got a great excuse to get a whole new set. I just have what's stock on them now, which I believe is Aquila fluorocarbon. They're really pretty high tension, which is great for projection when strumming chords, but a bit harder to do pull offs, bends, hammer ons, etc.

I play clawhammer banjo as well, and switched it to nylon because I liked the mellower sound and feel compared to steel. Was wondering if anyone has found some good strings they like on the banjo uke that would lend themselves to clawhammer on th

I've got a Gold King tenor banjo uke I've been using to learn clawhammer. (Loving it!) One of my strings broke, which means I've got a great excuse to get a whole new set. I just have what's stock on them now, which I believe is Aquila fluorocarbon. They're really pretty high tension, which is great for projection, but a bit harder to do pull offs, bends, hammer ons, etc.

I play clawhammer banjo as well, and switched it to nylon because I liked the mellower sound and feel compared to steel. Was wondering if anyone has found some good strings they like on the banjo uke that would lend themselves to clawhammer on the banjo uke to on clawhammer old time/country/folk tunes.

Thanks!

I've recently begun going to jams with guitar/banjos/violins with my banjo uke, but most of them want to jam in G or A, whereas C is where I've been learning a lot of songs in clawhammer and have been thinking that I could just restring my bari to high DGBE and play in G that way and then capo to go in A when I'm doing a clawhammer solo. (Figure the punchier chords will set it apart a bit compared to the guitars, as well.)

Has anyone here done restringing like that? Preferred strings? Anything to be concerned about?

Guys, I’ve been standing on the tracks waiting for the train for 45 minutes, but it just slammed its brakes and stopped before it got to the station and people keep yelling at me. (It was soooo loud!!)

I think the cops are coming, is there an app to use to contact them to cancel my police ticket? Why won’t the train keep coming towards me?!

Sorry, I’m from Ohio, so this place is very confusing, and boy do y’all need some fucking moisture!!

A sadistic scientist is interested in animal adaptation to adversity, specifically frogs. So he takes a frog, lines it up and says “jump frog jump!” It jumps 4 feet, and he jots it down.

Curious, he cuts off one of the legs and says “jump, frog jump” and the frog jumps 3 feet. “Interesting,” he mutters to himself and jots down the results, meticulously.

“Let’s see how far this goes…” he says as he cuts off one more leg. “Jump frog jump!” You guessed it, two feet. “Right on target with my previous observations!!”

He repeats this one more time (“jump frog, jump!!”) and lo and behold, his results are one foot for frog with one leg!!

So, realizing he has to see this through, he cuts off the

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I have heard that this super Hot Cop in Arvada has a good one, anyone got a second one for my list?

It seems whenever I go out or experience something here, there’s a non zero chance that I’ll hate it, and whenever I share my (totally understandable and relatable!!) hatred, I get ZERO support and it’s all: “for real, STFU and go back home!!! You complain every day!!!” with like ZERO self awareness. It’s exhausting and one of things I hate most (today) about this place.

It wasn’t like this Back Home. Back Home, whenever I said how much I hated here, people would chime in and agree, but now that I’m here, it’s like people just *don’t get it.”

I don’t get. I hate it.