Barnes & Mullins BMR300 Resonator Guitar

The Barnes & Mullins BMR300 resonator guitar is the perfect instrument to begin or continue your foray into authentic blues and bluegrass guitar playing.

This classy parlour size resonator guitar features a beautiful satin spruce top matched with an open pore mahogany back and sides and a single cone, biscuit bridge resonator design with a chrome resonator cover and hardware. The top pairs two f-holes with three circular soundholes for a traditional and stylish aesthetic. 

A mahogany ‘round-neck’ and walnut fingerboard meet a slotted headstock with open geared lyra machineheads, completing the BMR300’s ‘old-time’ look and feel.

Tonally, you can expect a naturally loud and articulate sound, and due to its shared resonator design characteristics with the banjo, the BMR300 delivers a distinctive banjo-esque mid / high range metallic assertiveness guaranteed to give your playing a truly authentic bluesy vibe. The combination of spruce and mahogany body tonewoods add a wonderful warmth, while the soundholes further ensure excellent volume and provide a well-rounded low-end.

Why should I buy a resonator guitar?

This Barnes & Mullins BMR300 resonator guitar is a great choice if you’re a guitarist who is venturing into blues and bluegrass styles, or equally, if you’re experienced in these areas of music and want a great-quality resonator guitar to add to your collection.

This versatile instrument can be tuned to various tunings suitable for blues, slide guitar, dobro and bluegrass styles, or simply to standard guitar tuning if you’re someone who wants to give your favourite riffs and licks that authentic blues and folk sound.

Common resonator guitar tunings

D, G, D, G, B, D - Open G
D, A, D, F#, A, D - Open D
E, A, D, G, B, E - Standard Guitar Tuning
G, B, D, G, B, D - Dobro Tuning

SPECIFICATIONS:

• Top: Spruce
• Back & Sides: Mahogany
• Neck: Mahogany
• Fingerboard: Walnut
• Frets: 18
• Nut Width: 43mm
• Scale Length: 25" / 650mm
• Bridge: Maple & Ebony - Biscuit Design
• Coverplate: Chrome
• Resonator Cone: Iron Alloy
• Handrest: Chrome
• Machine Heads: Lyra Open Gear
• Finish: Satin (Open Pore Back & Sides)

Please Note: Specifications are subject to change at any time.

Barnes & Mullins Origins

In 1894, Mr Albert Mullins and Mr S. Bowley Barnes started “The Jo”, their famous musical instrument journal.

Specialising in all things banjo, they soon began manufacturing their own banjos as well as importing many other instruments. The original Barnes and Mullins banjos are still sought after today, with collectors seeking them out all over the world.

Sadly in 1914 at the age of 40, Albert Mullins drowned when the ‘Empress of Ireland’ sank on the St Lawrence River. He was on the home leg of a 2 year sales trip.

Bowley Barnes continued the business thereafter, and what he had started with his partner years earlier in Bournemouth now moved to Rathbone Place, London.

In 1976, Mark Barnes – son of Bowley Barnes – moved the business to Grays Inn Road, Bloomsbury. Sadly in 1986, Mark Barnes died. He was greatly admired and respected by employees and customers alike who were quick to tell of his fair and generous nature.

In 1999, Bruce Perrin – a Director since 1986 – became Managing Director and moved the business from London to the current location – Grays Inn House – a modern 46000sqft warehouse and office facility in Oswestry, Shropshire.

Bruce Perrin says “We are excited about the future and are constantly looking at ways to innovate and evolve, yet Barnes and Mullins has always endeavoured to put the customer at the top of its priority list”.