Chords for David Holt Reviews 5 Deering Openback Banjos

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hi, [C] I'm David Holt.
I'm coming to you from Asheville, North Carolina, and I have the
privilege of reviewing five of Dearing's open-back banjos.
Now, I love these banjos because they
have different tones, each one of them have a different purpose, really, and hopefully
you'll find the right one for you.
The great thing about a Dearing banjo to me is that
they're going to come to you beautifully made.
You don't have to worry about the finish being
just right or each joint fitting just right.
They're going to be perfect in that way, and
they're going to be set up really well too.
So I really love getting a banjo you can just
take out of the box and play.
I'm going to try to do the same lick on each banjo so you
can hear what it sounds like on each instrument.
And I'm going to start with this Old Time
Wonder.
It's a 12-inch pot.
I've done a longer review on this one, so if you want to see
that, take a look at that review, but I'm going to cover it here as well.
It's got a
12-inch pot.
_ _ It's got a scoop here in the neck to _ give it that warm kind of tone.
So
you [A] can play way up the neck here.
_ [C] Hear that kind of hollow [D] sound? _
_ [C] _ That's a great sound
to me for old time music.
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hard brush on all the strings so you can hear the power of the instrument.
Now this instrument
doesn't have a tone ring, and yet it's still got all that power to it and all that _ warmth
of tone.
_ _ Part of that's a 12-inch head.
Part of it is the fact that it has a fiber skin
head, and that makes it warmer as well.
The other banjo that's very similar to this one
is the _ Little Wonder 12-inch.
Now the Little Wonder 12-inch is basically the same banjo.
No tone ring.
It has a different kind of head though, a frosted head, so it makes it a little
bit punchier, a little bit brighter.
It's got a tailpiece as well, which holds the strings
down tighter, so it's just got a little bit brighter tone.
Listen [A] to this. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ That's really_
I'd have a hard time choosing between those two.
I love those two.
The next
one is the Senator.
It's a fine banjo, 11-inch pot, and it's got a brass tone ring in it,
so that's going to make it a little bit brighter for you.
It's going to_
the Renaissance head's
going to make it a little bit brighter, _ and the 11-inch head is going to make it maybe
just a little more focused.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ It's only six pounds.
Now these other two banjos were even
lighter.
They were just five pounds, so if weight is a consideration for you, you want
to look at these three.
So here's the lick.
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_ I'd say this banjo is great for someone who
wants an old-time banjo that sounds old-timey but really punches out a good bit of volume.
This thing will definitely cut it.
_ _ Now the next banjo has a beautiful inlay.
It is the
Eagle Two.
Now this is a nine-pound banjo, so it's a good bit of banjo here, but all that
weight is coming from the tone ring, and the tone ring is what they call a 2010 brass tone ring,
and so the brass is a little bit softer than bronze, so it's got a_
it emphasizes the mid-range.
It's very clear. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ That's a loud banjo.
You could blow away with this thing.
_ _ If you play two-finger
style or three-finger style even, you could certainly do it with this banjo.
I think it
would cut through about anything.
It'd be great for kind of a Charlie Poole style too.
Now the
last banjo we're going to look at _ is called the Sierra.
Both of these banjos, the Eagle and the
Sierra, have these beautiful inlays as well. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So now it has a little bit different tone ring.
It's
a bronze tone ring, so it's a little bit brighter.
It emphasizes the highs and the lows. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ I hope you can tell from the video that all these banjos sound quite different,
and you want to find the one that suits the kind of music you're going to do,
but I don't think you can go wrong with any of these.
It's a real privilege to play them.
I hope to see you down the trail.
I'm David Holt.
Thanks.
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