Barts Texas Tonering??

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From Banjolution on 7/11/2015 10:56:01 PM

I just had the pleasure of playing an interesting BR banjo. It was a professional style with the internal resonator,fretless with flush fret indicators. Interestingly it did not have a bacon tone ring. It had what the owner described as Barts Texas tonering made of a large brass pipe from a piece of oil field equiptment. Lol. I never heard of this one. Anyone else? I hope Bart chimes in. Maybe an interesting piece of Reiter Banjo history here. :) It was early maybe late 190's serial number. Im trying not to buy it. I really should not spend the money. But it sure was neat and beautiful and sounded great!

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MillerMc says: 7/8/2015 2:35:57 PM I remember when I first got Joel Mabus's "Clawhammer" cassette (yep, that long ago), he said something like that about his Reiter banjo. It sounded great! Must have stuck with me. I looked it up on his website, and you can, too--http://www.joelmabus.com/faq.htm#play2
	Banjolution says: 7/9/2015 2:14:39 PM Thanks for that info Mark! Very interesting indeed. Wonder how many of this tone ring Bart made? Im going to pick this banjo up soon.Shes too nice to pass up. I will post pics.
	banjobart says: 7/17/2015 12:29:50 PM You have the details correct, I has about a dozen of those tone rings, taken in a trade with a guy in Texas.
	Banjolution says: 7/18/2015 9:52:58 PM Neat! Im excited to own this unusual Reiter Banjo. It really is a fantastic player. Sounds great with this tone down ring. I would love to play one with a Bacon ring side by side to compare...
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