Banjole? Banjalole?

[Happy Jack]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8-String-british-made-banjole/222905176633?hash=item33e62f1239:g:yBsAAOSw0gFav2AW

God's Teeth, man! How long would it have taken to Google banjolele?

[pete.young]

Still would have been wrong. This is a Banjo Mandolin, not a banjolele. A uniquely awful sound, even for a banjo.

[ash]

 And enhanced by particularly skilful photography 

[alyctes]

9 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8-String-british-made-banjole/222905176633?hash=item33e62f1239:g:yBsAAOSw0gFav2AW

God's Teeth, man! How long would it have taken to Google banjolele?

Problem is, you need to know how to spell it before you can Google it

[Shaggy]

On 1 April 2018 at 10:48, pete.young said:

Still would have been wrong. This is a Banjo Mandolin, not a banjolele. A uniquely awful sound, even for a banjo.

Yup, it's a banjolin.  During the Jazz age of the 1920's there was a trend for putting banjo bodies on any plucked stringed instrument, partly for the practical aim of maximising the projected volume of an unamplified acoustic instrument, and partly as fashion.   The small bodied cheap ones do sound tinny, but the high-end ones are nice - I have a mid-'20's Gibson MB-4 (as in pic - to go with my 'teens A4 and F4) that's great fun to play and really nice for bluegrass

[BassBus]

On 4/1/2018 at 10:48, pete.young said:

This is a Banjo Mandolin, not a banjolele. A uniquely awful sound, even for a banjo.

Still, more kindling for the accordion fire  

[Shaggy]

I wonder if today's Foderas and Ritters will be tomorrow's eBay junk in 100 years time, when the BC collective are all playing thought-controlled virtual synth-basses....... Or will we still be maintaining that you just can't beat a P bass, and arguing flats vs rounds?  

[Happy Jack]

No matter how far into the future one goes, mankind will always need precision. And perhaps even jazz ...

 

[BassBus]

28 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

No matter how far into the future one goes, mankind will always need precision. And perhaps even jazz ...

 

...and lines on a fretless neck will be the only way. 

[prowla]

I thought it was going to be Spanish - a banjOlé!