Wow .. the tone is haunting ..

"Speed bumps" Love it. I'm getting me one. If I can learn to play it half as good as this guy I'll be heaven.

Great sound. I would like to hear it more.

Bryan that banjo gave you a great song .. Love the warmth of your Ome .. I love the in beween notes one gets from a fretless ..Yours Guy

sound sends chills down my spine awesome right there 😅

so much talented

i dig it !! nylon strings and a lack of speed bumps, clawhammer style, sounds great

I'm interested in buying an iud it's fretless also has more of an Egyptian sound ...but I have dad's banjo I just started to try to learn claw hammer style trued to go to F TUNING and turned the string up instead of down and broke a string I laughed but was mad I did ooohhh weelll maybe it will be a song some day🎵🎶🎶🎵🔥🔥🎵🔥

It’s like an Americanized Shamisen.

That's that sound man. It's spooky old.

sick!

This instrument is country music in a nutshell. It's a banjo that makes it easy to do those long slides that country music has.

Tim Eriksen introduced me to the fretless banjo.

I want a fretless all banjos ive had have frets but i really need a fetless

Somebody know what song he's singing ? Thanks

High lonesome

I couldn't get past the shaky shifty camera angles I was getting sick.

anyone know the tuning on this one ?

Sounds like a shamisen.

idk. i dont like it. banjo definitely sounds better with frets, i mean guy in the video even says it. but im sure you all glazed over that and said "woah fretless is less common that makes it cool" but there is reason for this not being the prefferred method by proffessionals, Its only worth it if you need the specific sound for your style. which it likely isnt. edit: i just need to clarify. he said in the video he doesnt prefer the fretless banjo, he just owns one. used it for one song, one song he wrote in 10 minutes.

Great sound, but surprising coming from Bryan. What model Ome is that?

He says "its relatively new" and I hope he is talking about his specifc instrument cause the fretless banjo is older than a fretted one. He also doesnt mention its history which is nice when "intruducing" an instrument. It dates back to the early minstrel performers of the 1830s who aparently got the idea from enslaved africans on the plantations (joel sweeny) So the fretless banjo, often called a "minstrel banjo", is the earliest familiar form of the modern banjo. The stringed instrument played by the slaves were a bit different and less familiar to our modern eyes and ears.