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“Sweetone” heavy gauge solid brass tailpiecesĬall us at 60 or E-mail us for more information.Aged brass hardware with antiqued finish.Ebony fingerboards with s-shaped frailing scoops.Walnut, Mahogany, Cherry and Maple neck options.1-1/3 inch neck width at nut (wider than standard).25.5 inch scale lengths (shorter than standard).12 inch rims (11 inch are also available).
We’re carrying Ome’s Old-Time line of banjos, inspired by vintage models, especially Ashborn banjos of the mid to late 1800s. You might describe these openback models as sounding deeply woody and looking “elegantly primitive.”įeatures on all Ome banjos in this series include: He continues to bring his depth of experience and vision to Ome’s offerings. At some point this banjo had the older cam-style tuners for the 'bending the strings' banjo tunes, but the hole have been filled on the peghead for those, and replaced with the Scruggs-style tuners. We love what Ome is making for openback and 4 string banjos. Read our interview with Chuck Ogsbury, the founder of Ome Banjos to learn more about the history of the company. Chuck is as much an inspired designer as builder with a passion for banjos. This banjo is very well set up with a clear head, 5/8' bridge, Scruggs-style tuners on G and B strings, 5th-string capo, and period hard shell case. Ome Banjo Company, based in Boulder, Colorado, makes some of the highest quality American made banjos and have been doing so since the late 1950s. Responding to trends with his own designs, Chuck developed lines of banjos to appeal to bluegrass, oldtime and jazz players. Fifty-plus years of company history reads like the history of acoustic music itself. A great advocate for the five-string banjo has now gone silent.Ome Banjos are built in Boulder, Colorado, where Chuck Ogsbury has been involved in building banjos since 1960, founding Ode, and later, the Ome Banjo Company. Day, perhaps the most important single contributor in the development of the modern banjo.
He was also a noted banjo historian, and certainly the leading expert on David L. I decided not use the banjo bolt mod since the banjo mating surface on the calipers was very rough and the calipers were designed to accept a double-flare fitting.
The photo below includes his design sketch for the peghead. Ed was a product design consultant by trade some of the work he was most proud of were his designs for the OME Banjo Company in Boulder, Colorado, including the design of their top-end Renaissance model. He was a member of the folk/old-time group The Blunt Instruments, with Paul Harty on mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and harmonica, Bill Knott on guitar, and Jim Bradley on washboard, regulars at the Linden Tree. He was one of the founders of the Linden Tree Coffeehouse in Wakefield in 1985, and ran their sound system for several decades. This revolutionary technology replaces older pump designs, providing improved drivability and reduced. Ed was well known in the Boston folk music community. Constantly evolving technologies and state-of-the-art manufacturing over the past 35 years allow Bosch to supply fuel pumps with tight tolerances and compact design, making way for the latest advancement turbine pump technology. When we would start up in early April, people would stop and tell us that they knew Spring had finally arrived when they heard our banjos. Ed and I started playing banjo duets around 2000, and when I retired in 2010, he joined me in weekly street performing sessions in Harvard Square, during the warm season, until 2018, when his illness made further busking impossible. Ed was a gifted musician, who I first met at the old time jams at Old Joe Clark’s in Cambridge, not long after he moved to Boston in 1980. For the last five years or so, he has been in the long and losing struggle with Alzheimers. Ed's dear friend and musical partner, Don Borchelt, shared this: "It is with a very heavy heart that I must report the passing of my dear friend Ed Britt, my banjo picking duet partner for many years, and my close personal friend.
We are indebted to Ed's passionate love of the banjo and of ODE and OME banjos. His "Renaissance" design is the heart of Ome's Artist and Grand Artist models and is the pinnacle of decades of development in our banjo line. Ome Banjos - Words can not express our sadness at the loss of our devoted fan, collaborator and friend, Ed Britt.