Yep, that's right, a BRAND NEW HUBER VRB-3!
I stopped in to see Steve Huber this past Saturday to discuss the possibilities of renting some space in his building...Pulled up to the front door of his shop, turned the engine off in my car, and heard a banjo-sounded like somebody was standing right beside my car playing. Looked all around the parking lot thinking that maybe somebody was sitting on the end of a truck bed pickin'-but the lot was empty. Opened the big steel entry door to the 'Huber Banjos' shop, and the banjo got louder..walked down the steps and opened the door that leads to Steve's office, and the banjo got louder...knocked on the office door, and there sat Steve playing this banjo...I said, 'Man, what in the heck is THAT??? I could hear it all the way through your three doors AND my closed car door!!'
Long story short, I went to talk about renting a space from him, and wound up leaving with a truly incredible new banjo...Getting a new banjo was the furthest thing from my mind that day, but this banjo's got EVERYTHING I look for in a banjo in spades: VOLUME, PROJECTION, TONE, BALANCE, CLARITY, and it plays like a dream. The kicker is that the banjo hadn't even been assembled 30 minutes when I got there...I've got a feeling that this banjo is going to have a similar effect on me that Tom McKinney's Granada (9584) had on Sonny Osborne when he first got it (I know it's not going to turn me into a 'Sonny Osborne', but it sure does inspire me to play. It's the first time I bought a banjo 'for me' in YEARS...
I know that there's a bunch of great builders building lots of great banjos these days - I can't recommend the 'Huber TrueTone' series of banjo highly enough. If you're considering the purchase of a new, 'high end' banjo-I think you'd do well to include the 'Huber Truetone' on your list of possibilities...
I'll have my new 'Huber' at SPGMA this weekend-if you'd like to play it look me up and we'll make it happen..
lp
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