I must confess to not having played a lot of banjo - I think the last time was for a recording four or five years ago. I’ve never been a pinkie on the top player (on guitar) and usually rest the heel of my hand on the bridge when picking to which enables …
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I don’t play tenor banjo but clawhammer 5-string banjo. Always play with an old cotton ‘t-shirt’ stuffed in the back. It doesn’t dampen the strings the way a picking hand would do. Just cuts down on the tinniness of the sound.
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