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Posted: **Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:36 pm**

I found this on Photobucket.com

Posted: **Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:36 pm**

WOW!!! I have seen Bela a few times but never with a Bantar!

Posted: **Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:27 pm**

What Jeff said!!! WOW!

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:07 am**

Amazing!

I wonder what those things sound like? I suspect niether like a banjo, nor like an electric guitar.

JimK

Posted: **Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:03 am**

If memory serves, he recorded "Subterfuge" off of "The Hidden Land" with the Rick. Saw him and the 'tones at Wolf Trap on that tour and he broke it out then as well. One of my favorite musicians. He's incredibly gifted.

Posted: **Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:05 am**

I wonder if that is his own Bantar or the one that Doug Dillard had (or has).......

Posted: **Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:15 pm**

When was the "Bantar" built?

Speaking of unusual Ricks, did anyone ever buy the banjoline that was on G-Base?

Posted: **Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:57 pm**

Very cool photo John....I am hoping to be able to see Bela and Tony Trischka (who was Bela's teacher) next month. That will be an experience.

BTW, if anyone's interested in buying one, Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto has a 1967 Bantar for sale. Nice store...I try to go in there whenever I get out to NASA Ames.

http://www.gryphonstrings.com/instpix/28888/28888.html

Posted: **Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:08 pm**

Interesting webpage - it is copyrighted 1972. Many years before Al Gore invented the internet!

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