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The Desert Rose Banjo
From smorrow61 on 2/15/2014 10:08:37 AM
I felt that these banjos needed to have a showing of support on here so I decided to create this group for those of us who own one of Scott's wonderful works of art. I hope all DR owners can find their way here. If you know anyone who does own one please help them find the group.
I have owned a few lower end banjos but this is the first high end banjo I have ever owned so I have nothing to compare it to, but I can't imagine any banjo being better that the DR. With such a low volume of instruments being made and such wonderful quality we are in quite an exclusive group of pickers.
Lets all show Scott how much we love these banjos.
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 | gary pruett says:
5/28/2014 9:44:36 PM
Great idea for a group.
I purchased my DR from Elderly Music in Michigan a few years back. Inside the resonator it has an inked inscription "2005-013 Desert Moon Prototype". I picked it from the wall of other new and consignment banjos, finally picking it against a new Huber and a Pre-War Gibson conversion, without knowing anything about Desert Rose banjos or Scott Zimmerman. The objective was to buy a "second" banjo that would "do" if my Gibson Scruggs Model Mastertone had to go into the shop for any reason. After I got home I looked around on the internet and learned about Scott and his banjos. I contacted Scott, and he had seen the banjo a couple months before I bought it because Elderly Music had brought it down the the IBMA show to have him check out the set-up before hanging it on their wall. He said someone had replaced the head with a thicker one. I have not yet changed the head back to the standard Remo head. It saw about 1/2 duty for a year before becoming my primary instrument for all playing.
My take on the sound quality is the clean overtone sound. Each note is just so uncluttered and true. When tuning, it is obvious when each note comes into tune because there is always a clean sweet spot in the tuning that is beyond the resolution of an electronic tuner. And that quality carries over to all strings on all frets.
I am certainly proud to own this instrument. It literally "speaks" for itself. I just got home from the Tri-state festival in Kendalville, Indiana (A fantastic jam festival). As usual, I got several comments like "what kind of banjo is that anyway, it sounds great!"
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