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.
