{"id":4914,"date":"2009-11-30T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T12:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2009-11-30T07:42:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T12:42:45","slug":"banjer-banjer-banjer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/banjer-banjer-banjer\/","title":{"rendered":"banjer banjer banjer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Music-in-the-Wood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4916\" title=\"Music in the Wood\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Music-in-the-Wood-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Music in the Wood\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Music-in-the-Wood-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Music-in-the-Wood-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Music-in-the-Wood.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I trekked out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicinthewood.biz\/\">Music In The Wood<\/a>, the music shop in Rockwood that&#8217;s just been opened by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightspecial.ca\/\">Hugh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendihunter.ca\/\">Wendi<\/a> and Mac Hunter. It&#8217;s a nice drive out there, certainly once you&#8217;re past the 407\/401 mess. Norval, Georgetown and Acton still have some small-town charm amidst the stripmalls.<\/p>\n<p>It seems I had a lucky escape, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banjo-workshop.com\/\">Bill Rickard<\/a> was to be bringing in some of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banjohangout.org\/topic\/159683\/\">much<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banjohangout.org\/topic\/163357\/\">discussed<\/a> Dobson banjo kits. Had he been there, I would have bought one on the spot. The price is fantastic, and y&#8217;know, I really need a fretless &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All of Hugh&#8217;s banjos were sold, but he had five of Bill&#8217;s in the store. Two of them were the gorgeous spun-over rim types, a kind which hasn&#8217;t been made properly in the last century or so, until Bill started last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-banjos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4918\" title=\"Bill Rickard banjos\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-banjos-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Rickard banjos\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-banjos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-banjos-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-banjos.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-spun-over-Dobson-banjos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4917\" title=\"Bill Rickard spun-over Dobson banjos\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-spun-over-Dobson-banjos-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Rickard spun-over Dobson banjos\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-spun-over-Dobson-banjos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-spun-over-Dobson-banjos-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Bill-Rickard-spun-over-Dobson-banjos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The grand opening of the shop isn&#8217;t until next Saturday. I can&#8217;t make it, alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I trekked out to Music In The Wood, the music shop in Rockwood that&#8217;s just been opened by Hugh, Wendi and Mac Hunter. It&#8217;s a nice drive out there, certainly once you&#8217;re past the 407\/401 mess. Norval, Georgetown and Acton still have some small-town charm amidst the stripmalls. It seems I had a lucky escape, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[2902,2036],"class_list":["post-4914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banjo","tag-banjo","tag-rockwood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1hg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4919,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}