Dan Bump's Top Tension Birdseye Maple Banjo

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From Stringbean45 on 7/30/2016 12:42:41 PM

Hi all,

I received a letter from Dan Bump's wife today confirming that the Top Tension Bridseye Maple 5 String Banjo that Dan had was aquired from Bill Keith, his long time college buddy, and co inventor of the Keith Bump Banjo D-Tuners. She also said it was one of the ones that Great Lakes Banjo Company gave to Bill Keith for helping them with suggestions on what he liked a banjo to be built like.

I still haven't cleaned the patena off the metal parts, except I did clean it off the Arm Rest, where the worse of it was, and it cleaned up pretty good.

Still open from suggestions from the Group as to wheater I should clean it up, or leave the patena on it, and in the Original condition as received.

Don

2 Comments
	Tonecaster says: 7/30/2016 6:45:23 PM Dirty banjos can sound good and clean banjos can sound good. Do whatever you feel best about but strings, head and neck adjustments are all part of owning a banjo. Personally I like a clean banjo and one set up well and might suggest you get it to someone familiar with banjo set up for an evaluation. That is a great banjo and worth a proper set up. :)
	Stringbean45 says: 7/30/2016 7:12:39 PM Thanks Tonecaster, I think that is what I'm going to do. How do you load up pictures on this Group Homepage?
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