A wood finish that brings out the fiery red in the wood. Mother of pearl floral inlay in the peg board. Hahaha it was a nice stroke on my pride hahaha. My friends were so used to me playing my matte finish, basic dot inlay, open back for so long, they literally gasped the first time they saw this banjo. This does not bother me in the least bit. I have heard that this is a generic banjo made in a factory and sold under many different brands. ![]() I tightened the head, added some new strings, and made a minor adjustment to the action and she sang! But after three years of sitting, it needed a tiny bit of work. A SINGLE TIME!! He said he had it professionally set up when he purchased it locally. He played it one time and stored it away in a closet. I purchased this from a man through a local craigslist ad. The brass tone hoop really fits with the open back sound. This banjo just sounds utterly amazing as an open back. I removed the resonator and flange permanently. This banjo is serious, and that flat tone hoop adds some beautiful intonation! As an open back banjo, the RK-20 just sings!! It sounds way too good for the price I paid.ĭont let anyone fool you. I decided to experiment and pulled the resonator off. I bought this wanting a resonator back to add some volume to my playing. The resonator adds some serious volume as well. The flat brass tone hoop sounds beautiful compared to my wood rimmed open back. The RK-20 delivers that umph and a whole lot more. but wanted something with a little more umph. So I am a beginner level clawhammer player who to this point had only played a cheap open back banjo that I had converted to fretless. The last player on his list is Jake Blount, who has a Banjo Month feature, ‘Watch: Jake Blount, “Once there was no sun”‘, devoted to the official video (also on YouTube) of a track from his album The new faith, due for release on 23 Sept.Īnd in ‘Can banjo transcend cultural divisions? Bill Evans’ new album makes the case’, Lindsey Terrell interviews Bill Evans (below) on his personal involvement with the banjo and its history, his new DVD/CD project The banjo in America, and his hopes for ‘a broader vision of all of us playing the banjo, all of us celebrating the banjo, and using it to transcend some of our cultural divisions’.Submitted by Properpat ( see all reviews from this person) on In ‘Wes Corbett’s banjo needs: 10 songs that make him happy’, Wes Corbett gives not only an audio playlist of a pretty wide range of banjo music, but a YouTube video of each of them as well. In “Caamp’s “Lavender days” gets its glow from Evan Westfall’s flatpicking banjo’, Lynne Margolis interviews the co-founder and banjoist of the folk-pop-rock band Caamp, who transferred to banjo the flatpicking he knew from guitar. ![]() ‘What artist has influenced you the most?’ answer, ‘Tony Rice’), and adds a playlist of five songs plus a Lonesome River Band video. In the brief but weighty interview ‘BGS 5+5: Lonesome River Band’s Sammy Shelor’, Maggie Rainwater asks Sammy Shelor some fundamental questions (e.g. Note: these are not banjo instrumentals, but songs on which some notable banjo playing can be heard. In ‘Kristin Scott Benson shares her essential ’80s bluegrass banjo tracks’, Kristin Scott Benson gives a nineteen-track playlist of some of the music that she took in while learning to play. The Bluegrass Situation (BGS) online magazine has declared Banjo Month, marking it by giving away a Recording King RK-R20 Songster resonator 5-string, and running a series of articles by distinguished players with their own perspectives on banjo history and their own favourites among recorded banjo music.
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