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What is the best type of head for clawhammer banjo?   Message List  
Reply | Forward Message #1971 of 1992 |
What is the best type of head for clawhammer banjo?

I am guessing that all of the old timers must have used skin heads.
Likely either cow or goat. That makes me want to try a skin head.

What is the difference in sound between all the types of banjo heads
available today.

All the very best!
Terry
Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:51 am

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What is the best type of head for clawhammer banjo? I am guessing that all of the old timers must have used skin heads. Likely either cow or goat. That makes... 		trancegodz
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... ********************* Have been down that road (skin vs plastic, vs fybreskin vs Renaissance, ad nauseum)many times in the past 30 years or so. At one...
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