A nightmare before Christmas
Help help I’m a Brooks Banjo stuck in a Bluegrass banjos body!!
No seriously, if you want to know who “King Tinkerer” is look no further, it’s Marc Horowitz. He’s the man responsible for ordering the first Bacon tone ring over a silverspun. He plays on fishing wire, he stretches Tyvex heads (vapor proofing material for building houses). Marc has taken off the Bacon tone ring and replaced it with a Dobson and maybe back again, I hope. He has tried three different types of tuners in his banjo. Basically he is the quality control guy, really putting the whole banjo picture to his test. I’ve learned a lot from him, he’s not afraid to tell me what he really thinks and he continues to have good ideas. This one drives me crazy because I really want to play it and it is 2000 miles away. Marc found an old Sligerland Maybelle resonator and “King Tinkered” it, mounting it on a Bacon Silverspun I made for him a few years ago. The resonator was for a 10 3/4” tenor and fit into the 11” rim with a little woodcutting and felt. Nice Job Marc. Upload some mp3’s on the site brother.
