thebanjomute.com is here!

Subject: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Tony Burns
Date: 06 Oct 05 - 04:59 PM

The site is only a couple of days old and still a work in progress but there's enough information for you to order your Fielding-Cutler Banjo Mute in time for Christmas.

Makes a great stocking stuffer!

If you think the banjo player would be insulted at such a gift then give it to the banjo player's significant other. They will thank you for it.

Get lots. They're small.

Get yours now at thebanjomute.com.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 07:03 AM

Tony,

The site looks great. I still use mine almost daily. There has been a lot of discussion about these over at the Banjo Hangout. Many of the members over there have bought them and are very happy with them.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: black walnut
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:15 AM

It's so nice to think about Rick Fielding again. He was such a friend to folk music, in the city he called home, in the places he visited, and here at the Mudcat. Don't we miss him!!!

The link didn't work for me here from the thread, but it was easy to google. Am I correct that Cutler is Bob Cutler?

~b.w.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:46 AM

I bought one of these mutes from Rick himself when he was at our house in Branford, CT. It works great, except I can't convince my banjo-pickin' husband to ever use it!! (What about a banjo-mute-enforcer?) I think that the more you don't use it, the more you lose your hearing, the more you think you don't need it, the more you should use it.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 12:37 PM

I just had a nice chat with Heather. I think that she is really enjoying being the Banjo Mute Queen. She has shipped them all over the world. Most of her business has been by word of mouth.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: black walnut
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 12:46 PM

Wow. I didn't know that Heather! That's a beautiful thing. And what exactly is your wardrobe for this elegant job??

~b.w.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 08:05 PM

Doesn't a pair of socks or of underpants do a fair enough job?

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 08:08 PM

McGrath,

I have tried those methods and several others. They are not nearly as effective as this mute.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 01:26 AM

Banjo mute ? thats like spraying perfume on a skunk.

eric

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Tony Burns
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 01:37 PM

Black Walnut, Please try the link again it should work. The site is too new to show up in Google yet. The full URL is http://www.thebanjomute.com/. The link in Google to the Fielding-Cutler Banjo Mute is to the site we created years ago. Heather has now set up thebanjomute domain to handle sales and I've redesigned the layout.

Eventually I will move all of Rick's old site to thebanjomute as a cyber memorial to our friend.

I see in Google there is a banjomute.com. Do not confuse it with thebanjomute.com

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 10:59 PM

The link worked fine for me. I did go to banjomute.com just to see what was there. Hmm. I wonder if they also have an accordianmute.com

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 05:24 AM

I've got an accordion mute, although most people would call it a sledgehammer.

eric

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: black walnut
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 11:42 AM

Got it now Tony, thanks.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 02:31 PM

blackwalnut,

I believe that the Cutler is Bob Cutler. I don't know Bob, but I'm pretty sure that Heather said it was him who helped design and make the originals.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 06:18 PM

Tony, thanks so much for this and for all you are doing/have done to help Heather, etc. It's just wonderful to see. The site looks great and the memorial page, as always, brings tears to my eyes. I haven't talked to Heather in ages...must give her a *bell* soon.

All the best,

kat

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Tony Burns
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 05:51 PM

Added a nice review from Banjo Newsletter that Heather just sent to me.

Subject: RE: thebanjomute.com is here!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 12 Oct 05 - 08:17 PM

Tony,

That's great. I think that that review did wonders for Heather when it came out. Just finished practicing while my wife was making dinner and my son had gone to bed. Couldn't have done it without the mute.

Heather, you should contact BNL and tell them about your new site. I'm sure that they will mention it in the magazine.