imapicker2 - Posted - 03/12/2008:  20:57:54

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I am interested in reviews of the Gibson Staghorn Banjo found on page 29 in March 08 Banjo News Letter(Janet Davis ad).

The ad says the Gibson Staghorn is the choice of professionls.Do any of you own one?Is this legal? Am I loosing my mind?Is this the answer to all of the banjo brand name bickering back and forth? See what we have done,folks?

Dwight "HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR BANJO TODAY? 83GF100-HF
http://profiles.yahoo.com/jopicker2

bearface - Posted - 03/12/2008:  21:09:08

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I saw that too.very interesting.I bet it will go up in value quick.It must be a joint venture

lindyguy - Posted - 03/12/2008:  21:10:08

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That has got to be some kind of misprint. Janet does sell Stelling Staghorns. I just don't think Stelling wants or needs to get into that kind of wrangling.

I don't see a "staghorn" on the official gibson site, so I think its just a mistake.

Good eye for picking that up

Just add water..makes its' own

bearface - Posted - 03/12/2008:  21:25:21

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I already bought my boy raymond a bus ticket to that there Janet Davis music store.Somebodys gonna refund my money or im gonna have to call her!!!

stanger - Posted - 03/13/2008:  01:59:44

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Originally posted by lindyguy

That has got to be some kind of misprint. Janet does sell Stelling Staghorns. I just don't think Stelling wants or needs to get into that kind of wrangling.

I don't see a "staghorn" on the official gibson site, so I think its just a mistake.

Good eye for picking that up

Just add water..makes its' own

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Hi, Lindy...
Yup. It was probably a mistake that slipped past.

Gibson made Flatiron banjos for a short time, and one Flatiron model, the top o' the line, was called the Bighorn, and had vaguely similar elk-horn shaped inlays. Maybe Janet has one and the name got mixed up. There are enough differences between them and Stellings that there should be no confusion about what's what, though. The Bighorn is definitely not a copy of either a Gibson or a Stelling.
regards,
Stanger

The pen is mightier than the pigs.

banjodr - Posted - 03/13/2008:  09:43:51

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Woops Henry's on the phone! I always wondered if Geoff and Henry weren't related somehow! (just punnin) That is a funny blooper

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Forrest - Posted - 03/13/2008:  10:25:45

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I'm amazed by the typos that I see in promotional emails and catalogs from stores and sellers. It kinda makes you wonder who does the proof reading for these things.

"Run, Forrest, Run!"

stanger - Posted - 03/13/2008:  13:57:26

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Hi, Forrest...
Most banjo companies hire graphic designers to lay out and print their catalogs, and most often, the designers don't know a thing about banjos. The designers have to rely on the copy they are given, and if something is omitted or wrong, it may go to print that way. Proof reading is a real skill that most folks don't know how to do- to really proof read a piece for accuracy requires reading very slowly with deep concentration to every little thing. These days, website designers do a lot of very similar work, but on the web, a mistake can be fixed easily and fast. Once something is printed, there it is forever.

It's also easy to miss or skip something in a magazine ad, especially if it's a list ad, where there are a lot of items. Mgazine publishers often crowd their print deadlines up to the very last day so they can get all the possible advertising available into an issue, and the publishers are often at the mercy of the ad designers who work for the companies. If the ads are slow arriving, the publisher has a lot of pressure to get them fit into the magazine's format on time.

Most of this work is done digitally now. Just a few years ago, it was common for an ad to be designed digitaly, then produced on film, which was then pasted onto the master pages of the magazine, which in turn was produced on film for making plates. A special paper proof sheet was usually sent with the film, so a magazine could use either, depending on their production methods. Some magazines preferred the paper proof.

These days, almost everything is straight digital; the ad designers typically just send a file over the internet to the publishers, often with no reference proof at all to accompany the ad, and the publishers plug the ad into the digitally created page on their computers. Then the entire magazine is sent as a file to the printers, where printing plates are burned directly from the files, with no film used at all. The presses have built-in lasers that burn the plates, and all that needs to be done is a plate cleaning before the presses are fired up and the printing begins.

Unfortunately, this new method makes it very easy for mistakes to get in there now, and there's always a big last minute rush to get a mag to the printers, so it's easy to get stuff like this mixed up.
regards,
Stanger

The pen is mightier than the pigs.

imapicker2 - Posted - 03/13/2008:  15:49:24

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I decided that it was a misprint when I first read the ad--- but couldn't resist the urge to comment on the hybrid possibilities---especially, considering all of the past brand name bashing stand-offs here.

It is so easy for mistakes to slip by and get into print and fun to see them when they do.

Dwight "HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR BANJO TODAY? 83GF100-HF
http://profiles.yahoo.com/jopicker2

Forrest - Posted - 03/13/2008:  22:59:14

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Howdy Stanger,

I guess that once the mistake is made, it's a done deal. Perhaps I'm more critical than some in my reading, but I catch typos and grammatical errors in Ad copy all the time. I received a promotional email 2 weeks ago that had Acri fingerpicks listed incorrectly as "Arci" in the header, but correctly in the description. Sometimes the mistakes are minor and obscure enough to escape spell check, but sometimes not.

It's a fun game to play at any rate. Hmm...maybe I missed my calling...

"Run, Forrest, Run!"

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Edited by - Forrest on 03/13/2008 23:01:07