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[The following article was originally published in the Banjo Newsletter, October 1993 Volume 20 Issue 12.]
Richard Kulesh is the person responsible for the development of the
Gibson 20 hole tone ring for the banjos made from 1987 to the present
time.
Gibson Company has an exclusive contract on that particular tone
ring. Last winter, Janet Davis tested Mr. Kulesh's new 10-hole tone
ring, developed for Rich & Taylor, Janet Wrote:
 Banjo Newsletter
The results were remarkable. All of the ingredients
for a pre-war sounding "state of the art" tone ring are evident --
incredible volume, quick response, excellent decay time of the notes,
well-balanced tone with a clarity that spans the fingerboard, and a
tonal depth tat seems to come from within the banjo, rather than from
the surface of the head, projecting directly out the front of the
banjo, rather than up.
You can feel the difference as well as
hear it. The tonal difference was an improvement with each of the
banjos, but it was particularly superior with those having high quality
components and exact tone ring-rim fit. Also, the quick response
made a noticeable improvement in the ease and playability with each of
these banjos."
In January of 1993, Nancy Nitchie
interviewed Richard Kulesh by telephone. What follows is Richard
Kulesh's story of how that tonering came about:
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