Slight tendency to change from melodic to metallic at the very high frets.Mr Hohwald sometimes backs out of a full on extended resonance note in that area too when featuring some older but nice Japanese banjos and others.All in all though a nice sound more controlled than some ringy Mastertones.Having bought two Pilgrim Morning Star banjos(one a long neck)the conventionally tuned one sounds sufficiently amazing to prompt developer Paul Tebbut to say it was the best banjo he'd ever heard and to answer my question firmly with a NO.I'd asked him about the wisdom of swapping out the banjo's Chinese Tubaclone tone ring for an orphan Martin-era Vega Barbell/Dogbone I have lying about and sadly untried.He commented that the prototype of the Chinese tone ring in it had come out of a Loughborough(England)bell foundry.With his own Pilgrim brand to play he said he'd got old Vegas lying under beds unused.
Sweet sounding banjo!!!!
Thanks Charles. It is a sweet one.
Slight tendency to change from melodic to metallic at the very high frets.Mr Hohwald sometimes backs out of a full on extended resonance note in that area too when featuring some older but nice Japanese banjos and others.All in all though a nice sound more controlled than some ringy Mastertones.Having bought two Pilgrim Morning Star banjos(one a long neck)the conventionally tuned one sounds sufficiently amazing to prompt developer Paul Tebbut to say it was the best banjo he'd ever heard and to answer my question firmly with a NO.I'd asked him about the wisdom of swapping out the banjo's Chinese Tubaclone tone ring for an orphan Martin-era Vega Barbell/Dogbone I have lying about and sadly untried.He commented that the prototype of the Chinese tone ring in it had come out of a Loughborough(England)bell foundry.With his own Pilgrim brand to play he said he'd got old Vegas lying under beds unused.