Banjo Tone Ring Installation

A banjo rim with a scalloped secondary tune ring for a whyte lady.

Banjo tone ring installation. Clawhammer banjo players in. This is enjoyed by many traditionalists who like to play old time music and re create music from the 1800 s etc. Life after death experience nde with steve gardipee vietnam war story one of the best ndes duration. The following is a link to a recording of this banjo and art s comments about it now.

Nice tone with a clear ring but not an awful lot of volume. To make the installation easy fasten a temporary dowel stick of scrap wood inside the rim. The tone ring is aptly described because it changes the basic tone character of a banjo. At this point you have a headless rim with bracket hooks and hex nuts jangling from the l shoe brackets.

In these the top of the rim is the tone ring make a support stand. In general a banjo with no tone ring that has a three ply maple rim has a warm sweet rich midrange sound. This tone ring requires a ledge to be cut into the top edge of the rim for the scalloped ring to sit on and a smaller ledge to make the outer sleeve sit flush with the outside of the rim. He made a stainless steel tone hoop for it and installed it.

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