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The "Bassjo"
The original Basjo was the brain child of another acquaintance, Bret Bolton.
When it came to breath life into to the project, he called me. Mainly because I had the tools, facility, and
was crazy enough to help him pull it off. After a brief discussion (long argument) I demanded it be acoustically functional. Being a banjo player myself, in my mind if it's not acoustically functional it's not really a banjo. I knew the inner workings well
A copy pbass neck, a snare drum, a fender Coronado tailpiece were fashioned together using some custom brackets.
I had been rebuilding banjos and setting them up over the years, so it was familiar territory.
I hand carved a bridge myself, built a wiring harness using an electric bass pickup just below the neck and a contact peizo pickup
attached to the drumhead. The end result actually sounded more like and upright bass than we had anticipated.
Since that initial prototype build, I constructed another for my own personal use, upgrading the weaknesses I had identified along the way.
The Original Prototype
Hewitt's Garage Bassjo & Les Claypool
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