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Playing Since: 2018
Experience Level: Intermediate

rwsansom has made 1 recent addition to Banjo Hangout 

Interests:
[Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Occupation: Director of User Experience & Design at Pazien

Gender: Male
Age: 49

My Instruments:
BANJOS
- Coming in early 2021! A custom Huber VRB-4 with Mahogany neck.
- Gold tone BG-250 banjo with a Nechville Enterprise bridge
- Deering Goodtime open back
- Picks: Hoffmeyer finger picks, clown barf thumb pick

BASSES
- 1993 USA made Fender Jazz Bass Plus Active/Passive Fender Lace Sensor Pick-ups, Rosewood fretboard, Serial #: N3012425
- MusicMan Stingray 5 bass, Maple fretboard, Serial #: E09527
- 1990 Ibanez RD727, defretted, Rosewood fretboard.
- Strings: Galistring JF Jazz flats
- Ampeg SVT-CL bass amplifier
- Aguilar Tonehammer 500 bass amplifer
- Avatar 4x10 bass cab

GUITARS
- 1991 Fender Stratocaster (affectionately named "Elmira"), Serial #: N1037025.
- Yamaha FG-411 CE acoustic guitar, Serial #: 71202082

OTHER INSTRUMENTS
- Pedro Soto charango
- Ukulele
- Casio PX-320 piano
- Arturia KeyLab49 Essentials midi controller
- Jonah Thompson Native American cedar F# flute
- Coda EDC flute
- Hohner Melodica - piano 36

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Steve Martin, Punch Brothers, Bela Fleck, Jimmy Arnold, J.D. Crowe, Tony Trischka, Gordon Stone, Wes Corbett. (I'm also a rocker and jazz nut at heart, and really into Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Phish, The Black Crowes, Jamiroquoi, Dream Theatre, Ghost, and lately, the Hamilton soundtrack.)

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Created 10/13/2010
Last Visit 6/20/2025

I've been a multi-instrumentalist performing rock, jazz, jam, latin, funk, and pop music since 1990. I started on guitar, and in college, chose electric bass as my principle instrument, and majored in music production and engineering where my private instructor had me focus on transcribing Charlie Parker sax solos and Stevie Wonder moog funk grooves. All my playing since - regardless of instrument - has had nuances of these two artists. In 2010, after hearing Steve Martin's The Crow album, and frustrated that my local music shop didn't have the right set of flatwound bass strings, I impulse-bought a banjo. Admittedly, it sadly stayed mostly in its case until 2018 when I left my rock band and decided to pick it up again. This decision turned out to be one of the most rewarding music decisions I'd ever make - as I haven't been able to put it down. (My poor bass now sits lonely on the StringSwing slat-wall, waiting to get some loving.)