iplaybanjer - Posted - 09/08/2009:  19:09:01

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i can sum up my comment on nechville in 4 words.... I love nechville banjos.

pick1936 - Posted - 09/09/2009:  11:23:33

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Man, You Said It All..



Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

pick1936 - Posted - 09/11/2009:  17:12:40

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My Athenafied Classic Deluxe, with Tom's (Timbr--Tronic) ring, is sounding so good, went to the jam last night, We had a big crowd, with many pickers, It' almost a crime to have so much fun at a pickin party. (Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

daytripper - Posted - 09/12/2009:  08:36:00

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I'm a pretty new picker and am not in the market for a new banjo, but I'm very keen on the modern look of these instruments - the Phantom & Athena in particular. The black fixings set it apart as something a little different & I find a trad resonated banjo a little fancy at times.

Do they come in lefty?

Beardog - Posted - 09/12/2009:  08:45:24

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Hey Chris. I have a 5-star head on my Phantom, cranked down real tight. I tell you, it's pretty darn close.

Beardog

nechville - Posted - 09/13/2009:  19:50:33

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Yeah, We do Lefties, and to comment on the Grassy tone... You don't find as many Nechvilles set up that way maybe because people are looking for another banjo sound when they play their Nechvilles. I know a lot of players who own a smooth and silky Nechville and another trad banjo set up for snap crackle and pop. However the potential exists in a Helimount for a tone that pleases the biggest lovers of traditional banjo, as Beardog and others will attest to.

Banjo Revolution REV IT UP!
nechville.com

saltcreek - Posted - 09/13/2009:  19:59:34

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My Phantom has some of the best tone I ever heard and the playability is second to none, I loved it so much I just had those folks build me a custom Classic, should be getting it Monday, I'm like a kid at Christmas, I'll let you all know about it when I get it and play it for awhile, I can't wait.

Tony

alprice - Posted - 09/14/2009:  07:35:17

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Tony, I hope you post pictures. I'd love to see that one.

Al

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saltcreek - Posted - 09/14/2009:  11:28:08

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will do.

Tony

Beardog - Posted - 09/14/2009:  18:57:00

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I can't wait to try everything that Tom and Al bring to the IBMA.

Its hard to imagine anything better than my walnut Phantom that Nechville can come up with, though!

I've got some black coated Black Diamond strings on it right now, and man, does it play slick.

Beardog

JamesTanglewylde - Posted - 09/14/2009:  18:57:58

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Just to let anyone who is interested know, Tom is sending me one of his teflon strip rims to test out. If I am correct I can set up my banjo with the rim and my cyclotronic ring, balls and all, for a tone test compared to my other rim. I believe that I can also test out the rim without the balls for a tone comparison. Either way, I will post my findings hear as soon as I can! Can't wait!!


-Luke

JamesTanglewylde

jbanjoist - Posted - 09/15/2009:  16:35:18

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You'll no doubt love the lighter weight and might even love the sound.

Jbanjoist
I'm a NECHVILLIAN!

EDUMACATE YOSEF!

You don't know until you KNOW.

pick1936 - Posted - 09/16/2009:  17:02:23

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I'm staying with the balls, gives great tone to the wood rim. but Hey jbanjoist, if You get the sound You like without them Great, Nechville's are so adaptable, and just GREAT..


(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

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Edited by - pick1936 on 09/16/2009 17:05:24

saltcreek - Posted - 09/16/2009:  17:31:23

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I hope I can get some photos of this beautiful banjo that the folks at Nechville just built for me, I finally got her, 3 months for a custom build , that's pretty good, It has a wood tonering that sits on ball bearings and a hoop of titanium , I hope I got it right , if not Tom can correct me, it's light weight and powerful and plays great, I'm lovin it so far. Someone tell me how to put the photos here and I will. or look at my homepage I'll try to upload them there.

Tony

Guy - Posted - 09/17/2009:  01:30:11

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Anyone in the UK venturing down to the Cornish bluegrass festival this weekend can see a number of Tom Nechville's banjos at Richard Webster's stand. This includes one, a Nextar which I have set up with a wooden tone ring and steel balls. Anybody who wants to try my Nextar with the 20 hole tone ring for comparison, has only to ask.

The fabulous Spanish banjo player Lluis Gomez will also be there playing his Vintage. Lluis was a great influence on me when I chose to become the owner of a Nechville.

Guy

You hum it son, I'll play it!
salmagundi.me.uk

alprice - Posted - 09/17/2009:  07:24:28

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Guy, please tell Richard and Lluis that I send my warmest greetings. It makes me wish I was in Cornwall this weekend to think all three of you will be there at once.
Al

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sammys - Posted - 09/17/2009:  10:45:35

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I just want to add that the customer service at Nechville is THE BEST. Tom and/or Al are just a phone call, email, or a BHO post away at all times and Tom has gone "above and beyond" my expectations this past year making sure my classic sounds and looks just the way I like it.

Guy - Posted - 09/17/2009:  13:31:42

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Hi Al, I certainly will. We'll have to find some pre-text for getting you over here some time. Mind you, I wish I could get to IBMA! Maybe one-day...

Guy

You hum it son, I'll play it!
salmagundi.me.uk

jbanjoist - Posted - 09/17/2009:  14:03:46

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Originally posted by pick1936

I'm staying with the balls, gives great tone to the wood rim. but Hey jbanjoist, if You get the sound You like without them Great, Nechville's are so adaptable, and just GREAT..


(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

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Hey Lee, as long as it's a Nechville!

Jbanjoist
I'm a NECHVILLIAN!

EDUMACATE YOSEF!

You don't know until you KNOW.

pick1936 - Posted - 09/18/2009:  11:28:19

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Right jbanjoist, The Nechville is without a dought the best New banjo's being built, Today, and TOMORROW,, Just Great, I hope to buy another one in the future, If We still have a future? I hope We do.


(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Epected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

jbanjoist - Posted - 09/18/2009:  14:11:30

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I'd like to have a Phantom myself. Don't need one but I'd sure like to have one.

Jbanjoist
I'm a NECHVILLIAN!

EDUMACATE YOSEF!

You don't know until you KNOW.

pick1936 - Posted - 09/19/2009:  07:22:25

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Right jbanjoist, I would like a Custom Vintage, with a Cascade neck inlay, and custom inlay on peg--head, but I really don't need it either, a I am pickin My Timbr--Tronic Classic Deluxe at Church tomorrow, a Medly of Two hymns in Open neck Key C, ( What A Day That Will Be, When My Savior I Shall See )
We did have a great day..

(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

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Edited by - pick1936 on 09/25/2009 14:47:41

alprice - Posted - 09/19/2009:  09:19:50

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Originally posted by Guy

Hi Al, I certainly will. We'll have to find some pre-text for getting you over here some time. Mind you, I wish I could get to IBMA! Maybe one-day...

Guy

You hum it son, I'll play it!
salmagundi.me.uk

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Guy,

Consider coming to Wintergrass on the west coast (near Seattle). I live there and have a spare room. Third weekend in February. Tom and I will show you a good time.

Al

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g-banjo - Posted - 09/20/2009:  02:38:34

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If we're talking wishlist here I'd like a walnut Phantom with a cocobolo tone ring on steel/delrin balls at a 2 to 3 ratio, a 15/16th bridge and a renaissance head......this may be a long wait :)
Meanwhile the neck of my 2006 Experimental Geo is with Tom getting the heel reshaped (a little) to let me use a very high bridge and my 1999 Meteor is on its way to him for a refret and overhaul so the only Nechville left in the house is my son's Banjovie, which is great fun, but I'm finding myself doing gardening and painting walls! My wife is delighted.

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Edited by - g-banjo on 09/20/2009 04:55:00

banjopicker47 - Posted - 09/20/2009:  07:12:50

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The CLassic doesn't have a metal tone ring? Or is it just reversed,metal outside and Wood inside ?

banjopicker47

pick1936 - Posted - 09/20/2009:  19:25:15

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The Calssic comes with a Bronze tone ring, and looks like All rings, Unless You prefer to order a Wood Tone ring.. I changed to wood to save 3 & 1/2 Lbs. WOW.



(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.




Lee Kelso

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alprice - Posted - 09/21/2009:  08:01:20

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Originally posted by banjopicker47

The CLassic doesn't have a metal tone ring? Or is it just reversed,metal outside and Wood inside ?

banjopicker47

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A Classic DLX has a twenty hole tone ring with ball bearings when in its standard configuration. However, many players are ordering them or retrofitting with the Timbr-Tronic tone ring system, opting to drop a dew pounds in the weight of the instrument while still experiencing excellent volume and tone.

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saltcreek - Posted - 09/21/2009:  11:46:36

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My Classic doesn't have a conventional tonering but I think the stock model does or you could probably get a number of Tom's Tonerings installed.

Tony

pick1936 - Posted - 09/21/2009:  15:18:32

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Hey Tony, sounds like You got a Great Nechville, Makes Me think, Maybe I should try that Tone Ring, with wood, and Titanium...



Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected.


Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

pick1936 - Posted - 09/26/2009:  17:41:56

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hey Guy, I also like Lluis Gomez, Tom Gave Me a C.D. of Him, great picker. I am seeing more Nechville players at Bluegrass festivals. When I go to Festivalls, I take off The resonator, and show people how fast, and eazy, to loosen, or tighten the head, and other adjustments, Most Have never seen a Nechville before, but some are finally coming around, Mine is still sounding Great, I can pick close to bridge, sounds like shooting bullits,, Then move and get almost any sound.

Sounds like A Bell
But It's Still Wood.


(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)


Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

RB5 - Posted - 09/26/2009:  19:06:33

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I love your compensated bridges but unfortunately I have never gotten a chance to try the banjo's.

That's my story and I'm sticking with it!

Robert.

pick1936 - Posted - 09/27/2009:  04:57:53

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Hi Robert, Just wait till You get Your hands on one.



Sounds Like Silver
But It's Still Wood.


(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

Guy - Posted - 09/27/2009:  09:18:17

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Hi Guys

It's taken me this long to catch up after the Cornish Bluegrass Festival, Lluis Gomez was fantastic and his band is just perfect for him. They provide him with a very dynamic platform on which he can play Latin, jazz, blues, bluegrass, Celtic and a lot of other flavours in-between. The Nechville is perfect because of its versatility. The more you play one and the more types of music you incorporate into your playing, the more you wonder if any other banjo could cope as well with all the different tones and expression you come to expect from a Nechville.

I think I'm becoming a proficient banjo picker, proficient enough that people will take time to come and hear me play. I had a lot people comment on the sound of my Nextar. The comments weren't comparing it to a Mastertone but marveling at its own individual sound. If I move away from the bridge, I can get softer edged sound which is thick and warm at the same time. I had one guy craning over with his ear a foot away directing me to move my right hand to a position where he had heard a particularly nice sweet spot. If I move my hand back towards the bridge, I can crank her up. You’re always going to get one Pratt in a jam session that’s got a louder than average instrument and wants every body to know about it, but I can't remember anyone saying they wanted to get closer to it, much less listen to it from a foot away and listen intently.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Chris Quinn. Chris is a really great musician and a great banjo player. I love Chris's attitude towards music and read Chris's posts whenever I see them. Chris is playing a Kel Kroyden at the minute and he says he needs that full on Bluegrass edge for the Foggy Hogtown Boys. I thought they were a great band and had an awful lot more than just Bluegrass in their show, some nice backward glances at Old Tyme, particularly when Chris Coole, their guitarist was frailing, he writes damn good songs too. Despite Chris Quinn's current preferences for banjos he had a play on mine, without picks, serving up a great rendition of Farewell Blues, ironic as I had been learning it that week. I've got some work to do if I want my version to sound like Chris's. Sounded great, especially with a drop C tuning, that bottom string can really growl if you want it to.

It was great to meet Chris and discuss music with him, face to face, rather than on Internet forums. I think we both feel we have a lot more in common than we'd maybe realised from written communication.

Phil Davidson was also knocked out. Praise indeed from a veritable English banjo maker. I had a go on a banjo he has just made for Richie Collins. Richie is a great British banjo picker known for his heart stopping bluegrass banjo. Richie's banjo has a shorter scale to help him with an injury to his hand. The short scale brings the bridge closer to the middle of the vellum, maybe that's one of the reasons I was able to get some of the tones I look for when playing my Nextar, Richie and I agreed we were looking for similar characteristics from our banjos and both of us are very happy with our respective banjos.

I also got to play some of my friends Nechville. What a great banjo weekend!

Thank You Cornish Bluegrass Festival.

Guy

You hum it son, I'll play it!
salmagundi.me.uk

JamesTanglewylde - Posted - 09/28/2009:  16:28:28

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So, I've gotten the chance to test out the modified rim with the teflon strip in it. Tom was very kind to send me one for a little while. I installed the rim first with the ball bearings in the tone ring, and then without them. I must have disassembled and re-assembled my banjo ten times that day, and always using the same head tension and setup! I'm not sure if that would have been possible if it were not a helimount!

Anyway, here goes. After installing the rim with the ball bearings I immediately noticed a difference in the tone, though not too dramatic. The sound seemed to have less of the high end ping or brightness, and more of a mellow or woody tone. Maybe you could say it was little cleaner sounding. Another difference that I found was that my right hand position had to be moved closer to the bridge to get that real "snarly" tone. With my other rim, my right hand wants to be a little further away from the bridge to get that low end "growl." Overall I really enjoyed it's seemingly more pure sounding tone.

Next, I tried the rim without the ball bearings in the tone ring. The most obvious change was certainly the weight difference. I'm not sure how much they collectively weigh but It felt great to not have all that extra weight on my shoulder. (another great reason to check out the new wood rings that Tom's working on.) As for a change in the tone, I noticed maybe a little more plunkiness or hollowness in the sound. I have to admit that I prefer my tone ring with balls! The helimount system just seems to function more smoothly with the ball bearings. Though without them the teflon seemed to make the whole system still rotate as usual.

It's too bad that I didn't have my band hanging around to get a better idea of how it would sound in a live bluegrass setting but if I subjected them to a full day of banjo tinkering they might have killed me! Anyway Tom had said in an earlier post that he thought that the teflon might have a purifying effect and I think he's right. I would like to see how this rims tone changes in time as it settles. The overall differences in tone between the two rims were subtle yet noticeable and give further testimony to the amazing versatility of Nechville banjos.

-Luke


JamesTanglewylde

pick1936 - Posted - 09/30/2009:  10:45:28

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Originally posted by pick1936

hey Guy, I also like Lluis Gomez, Tom Gave Me a C.D. of Him, great picker. I am seeing more Nechville players at Bluegrass festivals. When I go to Festivalls, I take off The resonator, and show people how fast, and eazy, to loosen, or tighten the head, and other adjustments, Most Have never seen a Nechville before, but some are finally coming around, Mine is still sounding Great, I can pick close to bridge, sounds like shooting bullits,, Then move and get almost any sound. WOW..

Sounds like A Bell
But It's Still Wood.


(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)


Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

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Lee Kelso

pick1936 - Posted - 10/01/2009:  21:40:59

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I will be taking My (Timbr--Tronic) Classic Deluxe, with Radiused board to Clinton Friday, and Saturday. If anyone has never seen a Nechville, OR seen how fast and eazy it is to take apart, Change Head, or Change Tone ring, all In just minutes. and adjust the neck for any angle, in Minutes. Wed. afternoon, I screwd Mine apart, Cleaned up the Tone ring, applied some Vaseline to top of wood ring, put some Nechville, white grease on the threads, screwed it back together, and was pickin again, in less than 40 minutes, didn't even have to loosen the strings, Just reposition the bridge, anyone who would like to see how great The Nechville's are Just ask Me, I have a BIG Nechville sign on My case, hope to see You there.
(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Rings Like Silver.
But It;s Wood.

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

pick1936 - Posted - 10/03/2009:  14:47:01

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I will be taking My (Timbr--Tronic Classic Deluxe to church tomorrow, I may get to pick some with The Bluegass Gospel band thats playing at church---(Lindley Creek),, They are a family band, Tate plays a Custom # 5 Gibson--Ingraved, and Gold plated.,, He also has a Gold Chief banjo, both sound great, and He is a good picker, He has taken lessons from The Great banjo picker (Lonnie Hoppers) We will have a great time. (What A Day That Will Be, When My Savior I Will See), I guess I better get busy and change My string, They have been on 6 months.
Update, We had a great day. WOW..

Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected.


Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

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Edited by - pick1936 on 10/06/2009 21:41:38

pick1936 - Posted - 10/07/2009:  21:06:28

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Man, I loosened My head a little, Put on a heavyer Bridge, pickin some Gospel Tunes, and it is sounding Great.



(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

Mike Rowe - Posted - 10/08/2009:  14:04:30

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I'm in a straight-up bluegrass band but also in an electric band. The electric band does country and old rock songs. Last night I suggested trying Old Home Place with drum and keyboard breaks. If you're gonna go out there, go all the way out, right?
This was the first time I'd had my Nechville recorded and I was REAL happy with the way it sounds! This is a wooden tone ring with all steel tone spheres.
Disclaimer:
Don't let my playing ruin your listening to the sound of the Nechville. AND this is our first run-through of this song. OK, you've been warned! Mike


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1983 Deering Deluxe (2008 JLS #4 tonering/ Cox rim/ Arthur Hatfield setup)
2001 Stelling Red Fox
2009 Nechville Phantom/Nuvo hybrid

--What's time to a hog?--

nechville - Posted - 10/08/2009:  17:15:28

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Hey Mike, I see what you mean, I do like the sound you are getting, even though the recording sounds far from the source. Hey, I employed one of our new 5th string sliding bodies today, man they work slick, and look cool, Thanks for your engineering and manufacturing help! Tom

Banjo Revolution REV IT UP!
nechville.com

Mike Rowe - Posted - 10/08/2009:  18:23:19

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Hi Tom,

That was recorded on a little hand-held recorder laying on top of the keyboard! That banjo just cuts through bass, drums, electric guitar, keyboard. All the others were playing through amps and I'm just mic'd up with the vocals. It's just a practice session.
You're sure welcome about the 5th string capo. Speaking of that, I'm working on a recording using it in a different way. Every time I play an open G chord I move the capo. 2nd fret, 4th fret, 7th fret, 12th fret. I'm getting some wild sounds out of it. Having a ball!
Mike

rowebanjo.com
rowemusicparts.com

1983 Deering Deluxe (2008 JLS #4 tonering/ Cox rim/ Arthur Hatfield setup)
2001 Stelling Red Fox
2009 Nechville Phantom/Nuvo hybrid

--What's time to a hog?--

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That Banjo Glossary Guy - Posted - 10/08/2009:  23:48:27

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Okay, at the risk of receiving wrath over what I am about to say, I have never been a real fan of Gibson banjos, yet anyway, and I am a huge fan of Nechville banjos.

Forgive me for a longwinded post, but here goes...

Regarding Gibsons, to me they are so inconsistent. When I started playing in 1977 I read all about Gibsons and when it was time for me to step up to a better banjo that the Hohner I began with, I went to Smith Music House in Spartanburg, SC which had a great selection of every banjo made then. The Gibson, well, totally sucked. It had an 11-ply wood rim, a horrible tone ring, the inlay was so sloppy as to be embarrassing. There is no way I wanted that, I was never enamored by the name. And this was a VERY expensive banjo at the time. Played side by side with an Aria, Alvarez, Odes and Omes, there was no comparison. Gibson had lost their way on banjos in the 1970s. It's true. An 11-ply rim?? Yes, Gibson did that.

So I bought an Aria Pro II at the time which was great. It too had an 11-ply rim but sounded great to me. When it was time to step up again, I again looked at the banjos available, and decided I'd assemble my own. So I had Bill Sullivan make a neck for me with a cool inlay pattern I had found from Liberty Banjo Company, and bought a hard rock 3-ply rim made by Bill and StewMac tone ring from Bill and top tension kit from Liberty. This banjo is an amazing instrument. So personally, I've never been shy about experimenting a little. I wanted a good sound, I didn't care about the name on the headstock. I was 17 or 18 years old at the time.

Fast-forward a few years. I was always itching to get a 2nd banjo, and at various times have owned a Baldwin, a Stelling, and a nice no-name banjo handmade in Florida. All have since been sold long ago.

Then I saw a Nechville. Then I PLAYED a Nechville.

The first Nechville I saw was at Ciderville Music in Clinton, TN, an acoustic model that had a drop-in electric module. That was probably 14+ years ago at least. I kick myself now for not springing for the $1400 that Dave West at Ciderville wanted, a great price even then. Dang, I let that slip by.

Years ago I nearly did a barter with you, Tom, to design a catalog for you in exchange for a few Nechvilles. When was our back and forth on that ... 2000? I can't remember, but it was before I started and ran finecases.com... I guess I was reaching too high for the cookie jar LOL.

About 5 years ago I just got an itch to get a Nechville and actually found one here on banjohangout and had it shipped to me. It was the Stealth model and until I played it had no idea that the fret spacing was a little longer than normal. It was a little hard for me to play because my hands are small. So I let that one slip by. A couple of years ago I got the itch again and drove and bought one that very day. But it did not have all the features I wanted, especially the radiussed fingerboard, and I later needed some cash, so I let it go about a 2 years ago. Dang Dang Dang. Every time I look the prices are a little higher, just plain simple economics.

But, the Nechvilles I have seen over the last 14+ years just keep getting better and better. Your workmanship has continued to refine itself over time, and the latest ones I have seen are beautiful instruments. The first one I saw 14 years ago was nice, but the later ones are definitely refined instruments.

For me, it has been the sound I'm after, and that's why I like your banjos. It seems with a few tweaks you can coax any sound out of your instrument. You can set it up tight to get a really good snap, or it can be set up loose to get a slinkier sound. And the play very nice, and nice action. The design is nothing short of brilliant, or more accurately: "Duh! Why didn't someone else think of that!"

Admittedly, your design is a radical departure from the Gibson-style pot. So what? Gibson's design was a departure from something else. This is how innovation happens. If we all loved that old DeSoto and there were no innovation, we'd all be driving DeSotos. Your design simply makes sense.

It's like the top-tension banjo I assembled. I went with top tension because I saw Bill Keith playing one in all the Trishka books. I went with top tension not because of Bill Keith, but because top tension made sense to me: it put the adjustment of the head on top, and reduced a lot of # parts in the banjo. And, it sounds great. But it weighs a ton.

Your design to me makes sense: the screw-bottle top marriage of flange to rim makes sense and reduces a ton of parts, making the instrument lighter, and easier and faster to work on.

I'm glad for Gibson banjos. They're a great design. My top tension banjo is a Gibson design. If not for Gibson, where would we all be?

A few years back, a banjo player I know in east Tennessee was showing off the pre-war Gibson he had just bought for $4000. It had a neck by Frank Neat, a Huber tone ring and some other modern wood rim. Wait a minute!! I asked: "So what is pre-war about this banjo?" The resonator. That's it. It had a pre war resonator.

It's kind of funny that all Gibson banjos are actually made by First Quality in Lousiville. I don't know if that's common knowledge, but Gibson has not made Gibson banjos for about 20 years or so now. They're made by First Quality and assembled by Gibson. To me, that's Gibson's tacet admission that they don't know how to make banjos anymore. (I hope that I don't encounter the wrath of die-hards here, I have nothing aginst Gibsons, but there, I've said it! The truth is, First Quality knows how to make banjos, so Gibson banjos are fantastic now. If that had been true in 1977 I'd be playing a Gibson today.)

And, you're just a nice guy, Tom. You may remember a few years ago, I called you after attending and sponsoring Steve Kaufman's Acoustic Kamp in Maryville, TN. Denis Capplinger, an instructor had broken the headstock off his Nechville and had gotten an emergency repair locally to play a show that night. For some reason not related, I talked to you on phone and mentioned that to you. (I don't know Dennis other than I was in one of his classes at the Kamp.) I told Dennis, and he told me you called him to replace the neck for him! I don't remember the specifics, but these are the broad brush strokes of that even,t and you'll remember that too. What other maker calls his customers like that? I will always remember how you did that for Dennis.

So Tom, I want a Nechville. You and I have talked about that for 10 years or more. I just need to figure out how to make it happen.

So you would think I am a Nechville fan or something? So sorry for the long post, but you deserve it, Tom. Well, and you asked.

--Frank

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pick1936 - Posted - 10/10/2009:  14:45:19

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I will be taking My (Timbr--Tronic) Classic Deluxe to Church tomorrow, and My OLD Gibson Flat--Top guitar, Will be ( A Hole Lota Pickin Goin On) We will have a great time pickin for the Lord,, IF?? My back gets better, I went to the Dr. in K.C. Mo. yesterday Morn. Then went to do a little shopping, I went to Guitar Center,, They had one Good Time, and the strings were rusted, bridge was off about 1/2 inch, I set the bridge,, wet down a Bounty Towel, and Rubbed The strings real hard, got some rust off, tuned it up, and picked awhile, not to bad. Wish They would get some (Nechville) banjo's, after all that, and some more shopping at Mall, and Wall--Mart, looking at all the (CHINESE) Merchandise, My back got so bad My Wife had to drive the 55 miles home, Hope I get better so I can make it to Church??



(Anyway Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

pick1936 - Posted - 10/11/2009:  20:16:26

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I didn't make it to Church today, back MUCH worse, I can't sit, or lay without bad pain, better try to get to bed.



Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

pick1936 - Posted - 10/12/2009:  18:01:28

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feeling a little better today, But not enough to feel like pickin My Nechville,, SOOO Not much improved very much.



(Cowboy In Town, Feelin Bad No Trouble Expected)


Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

pick1936 - Posted - 10/13/2009:  18:21:55

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I still am not up to pickin My Nechville.. (Update),, Wed. 14th,, I have been pickin on MY Great (Timbr--Tronic) classic Deluxe today, My back let up for Me to pick, AND pickin banjo will Cheer You up, Nechville's are good for Your health...

(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)

Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

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Edited by - pick1936 on 10/14/2009 15:19:06

pick1936 - Posted - 10/15/2009:  14:31:23

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i will Be taking My Timbr--Tronic Classic Deluxe to the Jam In K.C. MO. Should be a Great Time.



(Cowboy In Town, Trouble Expected)


Nechville. In Higginsville.

Lee Kelso

nechville - Posted - 10/16/2009:  20:48:30

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Always good to hear from you Lee, Hope you are feeling better, Check out this song on video from a Canadian Nechville player.
youtube.com/watch?v=hbjFv2hBhMw
(hey how do you create a hyperlink on here anyway?)

Banjo Revolution REV IT UP!
nechville.com

Ottawa - Posted - 10/17/2009:  17:16:47

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Originally posted by nechville

Always good to hear from you Lee, Hope you are feeling better, Check out this song on video from a Canadian Nechville player.
youtube.com/watch?v=hbjFv2hBhMw
(hey how do you create a hyperlink on here anyway?)

Banjo Revolution REV IT UP!
nechville.com

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Wow. Good stuff. Thanks for the link. What a great sound from the Nechville. Very smooth.

Steven