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Flight of the Wedding Geese

October 27, 2012

The back entrance of the Banjo Rehabilitation Center overlooks Little Hulen Lake, and this pastoral scene was the sunny October setting of a recent marriage ceremony of two beloved workshop staff members. The BRC founder was the wedding singer (see photo) who led the congregation in such nuptial sing-a-longs as “Love Me Tender” and “Going to the Chapel/And We`re Gonna Get Married.”

Immediately upon exchange of the vows, an aerial gaggle of Canada geese swarmed over the wedding party. The honking birds raised such a cacophony, that the minister`s closing homily was almost lost to posterity beneath the winged armada (see and hear video). A dove fly-over would have been more suitable but difficult to choreograph compared to Mother Nature`s hand.

(Skip to the 1:25 mark for the geese landing to begin.)

Their BRC co-workers congratulate the young newlyweds and wish them every happiness.

P.S. Attention banjo buyers: Check-out the BRC banjo now available on eBay November 10-17 (sold). The new owner responded feedback, “Nicely packed & beautiful banjo. Very happy!”

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Passing the Torch

September 3, 2012

As Labor Day Weekend  slips through the Heartland on Isaac`s stormy rains, the parched grounds and gardens surrounding the Banjo Rehabilitation Center taste water for the first time in a long dry summer. Although there is a touch of autumn in the Missouri morning air outside our workshop, thoughts turn back to the sunny California beaches where the BRC staff enjoyed a well-deserved holiday only a few short weeks ago. As pictured in the below beach photo, the BRC founder passes the family musical torch to our harmonica-playing CEO thus linking a generational chain that began with the youngster`s great grandfather. In the background, the CEO`s guitar-picking uncle is beach combing with his tiny daughter, our Senior VP of Sales.

Check-out our first BRC banjo autumn offering on eBay from September 3-10 (sold).

Upon receipt, the buyer e-mailed, “Banjo is just what I wanted; Just the sound I was looking for; Beautiful too….Great work!”

 

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June 13, 2012– International Banjo Wife`s Day

April 7, 2012

The BRC Board of Directors has mandated that every June 13th, starting in 2012, will hereafter be known as International Banjo Wife`s Day in recognition of the courageous patience of those legions of saintly women married to banjo playing husbands. Attached is a photo of the 2012 poster-girl competition winner who has endured 40 years of marriage to a banjo player with as many as 14 banjos in her house.

She is pictured donning a desert safari hat as she readies to enter the deeply tunneled crypt of King Tut in Egypt`s stony Valley of the Kings where she prays no banjos will be among the treasures therein. To salute the untold virtues of banjo wives, all banjo husbands will still their instruments in a respectful moment of silence worldwide from 4:00-4:01 am Greenwich Time on this date annually.

 

 

As illustrated, wives may apply a loving headlock to husbands as a gentle reminder of this yearly observance. On June 14th, there will be a smaller, but no less important, celebration on behalf of those heroic men whose wives play the banjo.

 

 

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A Banjo Tinkerer’s Reverie

February 5, 2012

In tune with each dour note of the global economic turn-down, the Banjo Rehabilitation Center continues to eke out rebuilt bargain banjos while braving its own deficit budget. Brightening the cloudy fiscal clime of the workshop, the BRC founder routinely inlays each restored instrument with our mother of pearl identifier as seen in the two pictured clawhammer banjos sold on e-Bay: one with a scooped fretboard, and another with a carved heel. To cheer himself, the BRC founder wistfully entertains the notion that someday in the future, a fledgling banjo owner might glance at the BRC logo and momentarily wonder if it stands for “Barry’s Recent Creation.” Alas, perchance to dream.

 

 

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Enriching the artful climate of the BRC workplace

January 9, 2012

Although the Banjo Rehabilitation Center  is exclusively a “banjo shop”,  our sturdy little CEO sagaciously promotes musical diversity to enrich the artful climate of the workplace. In the attached informal photo,  the CEO gently instructs the grandfatherly BRC founder on the modal features of the Mixolydian scale by using the harmonica as a teaching tool. During this back porch tutorial, the CEO points-out  that the harmonica (as played by Jimmy Fadden) was seamlessly merged into the Bluegrass ensemble as heard on the  ground-breaking double album “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” released  a generation ago. Because of his progressive commitment to staff education and respect for history, the CEO quietly reaffirms to all his richly deserved place in the BRC Hall of Fame and Book of Life.