What Banjo Do You Play?

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,beachcombera
Date: 15 Apr 02 - 04:54 PM

I have been playing a "Grover" (made in Coventry?) for the past 25 years. Got it from a guy called Barry Dow (or was it Dew?) in North London. He repaired them in a back lane garage/workshop, behind a street market . It cost £300 sterling back then, has an excellent tone and can be set up to give terriffic volumn and also sounds very good when amplified by people who do not know what they are doing. What is it worth, ? anyone??

Beach

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: X
Date: 16 Apr 02 - 03:06 PM

Did Klush make thoses tone rings?

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Knitpick
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 12:14 AM

Main banjo is a B&D Silver Belle, converted to five-string from my late uncle's beat-up tenor (so beat-up that we had a baggy over the peghead to catch the pearl as it fell out). I also have an S. S. Stewart Princess model, strung with nylon strings. Loverly sound, that. Third is a no-name fretless with a light shell (Stewart style) and steel strings. Fourth is a fretless made by George Mathews of Birmingham (England), strung with nylon. Last is a Frank Proffitt-style fretless in cherry, made by Alberto Vazquez and myself back in the 70s. It is strung with steel or nylon as my mood suits -- currently steel, I think.

My tenors are fewer in number -- a resonated Orpheum with a 12" head and a May Belle open-back tenor. I also have a Goldtone guitar-banjo. Kinda plunky and funky, but fun.

I have a Vega Tube-a-phone banjo mandolin I bought on my honeymoon. I don't currently have any banjo-ukes, though.

I also have two banjos I recently acquired as stock to sell or trade. One of them is a Gibson neck on a non-Gibson shell that is a wonderful-sounding banjo. It'd sell for a lot if it were a true Gibson (it'd be an RB-100, I think), but I'll probably only make back what I paid for it as is. Too bad, it's a wonderful banjo, both resonated and open-back.

The other for-sale is a Gibson trap-door banjo-mandolin that's coming from Florida, but isn't here yet. I bought it through Ebay, as I do many instruments. I'm hoping it's as nice as the similar banjo I traded for the Mathews fretless.

Bob Clayton

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Jon W.
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 12:08 PM

The one I play most is my home-made cedar topped, apple fretboard, maple neck, apple & poplar rim wood head open back 5-string banjo. Funny, it doesn't sound a bit like a Mastertone.

I've got a 10 1/2 Slingerland open back pot, no tone ring, mated to a maple 5-string neck which I built. I use that for jamming. I also built a short scale (24") 5-string neck that I put on a Harmony Resotone (bakelite) pot which came with a warped long neck (that I couldn't stand) and a skin head. It sounds pretty good and I really like tuning it aDADE like double-c tuning a step up and playing the short neck, but right now it needs some adjustment and additional fret work.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: JedMarum
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 09:34 AM

A Vega long neck - made very recently by Deering. It's a beautiful instrument; great sound, great neck ... it plays better'n I do!

A guitar player like me doesn't deserve such a fine instrument!

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,Tommy K
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 07:22 PM

Mike Ramsey Special 12in openback and a Flesher Joel Walker Sweeney Minstrel

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 08:38 PM

Five sting - cheap-ass - EAGLE

Left over from my brother.

Why do you ASK?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: CelesteF
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 10:14 AM

This is a long thread, but I don't believe I've seen any Washburns mentioned.

I play a 1910 Washburn open back 5-string with a 10 1/2 inch pot and skin head. It's my first banjo. I bought it this summer and really love its old-timey sound. I don't find turning it to be much of a problem.

When I took it to Old Time Music Camp (in Groton, MA) a few weeks ago, lots of banjo players asked to play it, including some of the pros. So I guess I did all right. :-)

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: InOBU
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 11:12 AM

The banjo I play is a set of Uilleann Pipes, made by Seth Galligher...
Cheers Larry

PS CDs by Banjovi????

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,TomC
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 12:39 PM

My current bluegrass banjo is an Imperial made by Ty Piper sometime in the 80s. It has a very thin, solid, wedge-like tone ring and the neck is an absolute dream to play. My favorite banjos up to the Imperial were an Ode C and D both made in 1980.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,cookieless Chip A.
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 01:19 PM

Well, I see I started this thread back in April '02. Still have the Bart Reiter but I'm thinking of selling/trading it. I now have a Baldwin style C made just after they bought Ode in '66 from mostly Ode parts. It's much better suited to my picking style. Still want a good old Paramount though. Maybe even a 4 string to convert to 5. Or another early Baldwin or original Ode.
Chip

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 01:29 PM

A Maya Korean mastertone copy resonator 5 string, A mid nineteen twenties open back Dallas 5 string,A hundred plus year old Temlett Seven string, A Nineteen twenties Vega copy short scale tenor,Two Mando banjos,a banjo uke, and one of the hybrid Ozark Banjolas. which is the one I take out most, just cos I like it and its different!

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Mary Humphreys
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 01:42 PM

I haven't seen any mention of my first ever banjo, the Windsor Popular made in England ( Birmingham ?) pre- World War 2 after which the factory burnt down. It has a 12 inch ring and a real skin. No resonator, 5 strings which originally were steel but I changed to gut. Very low action - beautiful for playing finger-picking style melodic lines. Hopeless for frailing, but I don't frail.
I don't play this banjo much now since I fell in love with a modern 5-string banjo made by the wonderful James Bowen of Griffin Banjos, Lydbury North, Shropshire.It is a Griffin Majestic, based on the Whyte Lady model, but it has a beautiful clear and sweet tone that works wonders with traditional English lyrical songs. As soon as I tried it I refused to let him take it home - I bought it on the spot.I have never heard a banjo sound like it anywhere else.
I can recommend Griffin Banjos to anyone - he makes superb instruments of a wide variety.
Mary Humphreys

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 02:17 PM

I bought new in 1978 a 5-string Jida. Some say Aida, still others say Iida. The first letter in the highly scripted logo has confused some for years, but very reliable sources (importers) have confired it as Jida. Jida made (and still might) a full line of banjos in Japan. Mine is a top of the line Masterclone made with many Gibson parts. It is very bright, loud, and crisp. Some years back an old hillbilly banjo player (Earl by name. Really!) set it up for me so decently that he told me it rivaled most any Gibson for sound and playability. I've been using this instrument in a group, and when it's my lead, kick up that rhythm, because this thing will cut through loud and clear.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Jon W.
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 07:14 PM

Wow. It's been a while - since I last posted I have completed three home made banjos, two of which I play. The third (actually the first one finished) is fretless and I discovered I really don't care for it to play, but it's still nice to look at. Here are some galleries from my website (non-commercial)

Fretless

Sort of standard, open G tuning

Short scale, double D tuning

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Joybell
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 09:00 PM

We have a lovely old Stewart banjo given to us by a friend whose grandfather brought it to Australia.
I just wanted to say though that when we had to replace the skin head recently we were told there was a problem getting skins imported to Australia. Don't know why we don't have our own - we've got cows, anyway I'll bet we are the only mudcatters with a Kangaroo skin head on our banjo!

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,Redhorse at work
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 08:29 AM

SS Stewart "Amateur" model bought in Tucson on a business trip. Took it a long time to settle down to UK humidity!

nick

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 09:45 AM

I play a mish-mash of old-time, Celtic, swing and bluegrass in a self-taught don't-care-how-Earl-does-it three-finger style. I usually play this cheapo aluminum pot Dixon resonator-back that I got from a pawn shop for around $100 USD. Either it's the perfect banjo for my playing style or I've adapted my style to it. I also have an Alvarez masterclone, but it has a very bluegrassy tone and I don't really play that much 'grass. There's an old no-name open-back tenor hangin' on the wall that I'll pull down every now and then and there's a Gibson mando-banjo on another wall that has too many problems to be playable but that I swear I'm gonna get around to fixin' someday.

Bruce

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 11:06 AM

My list in order would be : John Grey I got in London after breaking my neck on a bonnivile outside Cardiff. CAlf skin head and brass fitted resonator. Warped neck but great sound.
                                              In the early 70's I bought and sold Fairbanks , Dobbson SS Stewart and then got a Baldwin Ode from Rodger Sprung to play out. I was doing both early up picking and frailing. I was playing lots of square dances and bar bands. Traded that for a 1905 Vega Tubaphone with a Mike Alison neck. ( One of my all time faverites)in 1974-5. Witch I played most of the years I worked out with Lui Collins. Then in 1986-7 I got a Bacon ( Hartford ) FF Profesional ( Great banjo in the studio but tough in concert ) Then in 1999 I got a 1925 ball bearing Mastertone with a mediocer Japaneese Neck. great in the dance halls and studio both.I still use it for bigger rooms.
          In the last few years I have been playing nothing but Mike ramseys instroments. I got a student model to travel with and he sets them up so well for frailing that it made me sound better then my mastertone ! I also got a student Ramsey frettless for some old timmey work.
          I have since bought a larger head Ramsye with a custom drum depth twenties style drum thickness in laminations and an early style neck heel. It has great presence ! Also its peghead is of a Dobbson type and has a great neck scoop. This banjo realy makes me sound like ME. Its takes years to come up with a keeper but I am home . All the best to all here.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,Tom Akstens
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 12:53 PM

I have an old Washburn from around the turn of the century that I've been playing for 40 years--my folks actually gave it to me for my 16th birthday. I recently got a Bart Reiter and I'm not too fond of it, to be candid--there's a "klangy" sound to it that I've tried to warm up a bit by loosening the head, switching to a 1/2" bridge, etc. Still kind of klangy though. . . the Washburn is bright and warm at the same time--a dream.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: bigchuck
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 01:24 PM

I've had several banjos over the years, all fairly nondescript but servicable. I'm currently playing a Wildwood that seems to have a Heritage pot with a Troubadore neck which I like a lot.

Sandy

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Ernest
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 02:11 PM

Hasn`t there been a similar thread before - and dou you call that a banjo vue?
Apart from that I play a S.S. Stewart Universal Favourite Tenor Banjo (17 frets), which was built between 1894 and 1898 - according to the list of serial numbers at mugwumps.com. Tuners seem to be original (hard to get in tune), bridge, tailpiece skin and strings are newer.
Second is a small Stella Uke banjo (tuned GDAE like its big brother) with old skin but new tuners (old fiddle-style onescould never hold through a tune). And a cheap east-german I don`t play anymore but did my first steps on - makes a nice wallhanger now.
Yours
Ernest
P.S.: Can anyone tell me when the first plastic skins were invented?

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,JB
Date: 30 Oct 03 - 02:05 PM

Have had a variety of banjos in my lifetime (all tenors tuned down to EADG an octave lower than the fiddle): Currently playing a PARAMOUNT from the early twenties which I picked up near Nasville. Very clear sound but perhaps a bit thin in sound.

Recently heard a guy playing an old gibson tenor. I thought the sound was great and it had a lovely short neck for the fast Irish tunes. Anyone got any idea where I could pick one of these up?

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 30 Oct 03 - 04:21 PM

JB , Funny you should ask. I have a 1925 ball bearing with a new five string neck and its original tenor neck. My email for pictures is [e-mail]
      all the best , Guy

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,Pete Peterson
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 11:03 AM

The banjo I play most is a 100 year old Sears Roebuck "Supertone" which people who know a lot have looked at & said--a number of banjo makers (Vega, Orpheum, Paramount, SS Stewart) all contributed to this banjo so that's why it looks so confusing. The incredible thing about the banjo is its provenance; it used to belong to Charlie Poole! (although I have never seen a picture of him playing it)

Other banjo is a Vega "Little Wonder" tenor converted to 5 string by a Kate Spencer neck in 1978 just as she was completing her involvement with the Arthur E. Smith Banjo Company-- so this looks a lot like an AES banjo.

I've also got a 1923 Vegaphone Deluxe tenor converted to 5 string by an anonymous neck maker. . . don't play that much!

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,Wah Ban Zhu
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 04:05 PM

I carried my funky Lyle five string all over China for two years. It sounds especially good played through the P.A. system of Chinese Intercity buses. Hundreds of Chinese kids grabbing it could not make a dent.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From:
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 07:30 PM

sounds like your talking about the gibson tb1 model dont know if theres many around mine came america and i believe its from around 1930's

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From:
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 10:43 AM

Hi! I play a 1925 gibson mastertone ball-bearing tenor i bought from John Bernunzio. All original! I have done some research and found the ball-bearing set up is NOT to keep tension on the head {although its one benifit} But its to keep the tone ring FLOATING on the ball- bearings and springs so not to touch the rim. This makes the tone ring "SUPER SENSITIVE". And it WORKS! A very SWEET tone with good volume! I love it! The only reason they stoped on this tone ring method is because VEGA felt it infringed on one of thier patends.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Tradsinger
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 02:07 PM

I play a Clifford Essex Clipper. I don't know if Americans come across Clifford Essex much but they are/were made in England and are high quality.

Works for me.

Gwilym

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: kendall
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 04:22 PM

A Fairbanks-Vega 5 string circa 1900. It's more of an antique than an instrument.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 05:36 PM

An Ode Longneck 5 from Boulder Colorado, Made about 1961.
I have played it for 15 years. One great night in Toronto
as a storm came in from Lake Ontario Rick Fielding showed me how a banjo was played. A lesson I will never forget.

Don

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Oct 05 - 05:04 AM

My main banjo is a 1914 Vega, Fairbanks Whyte Laydie short scale tenor, 10 3/4 inch head, it sounds amazing and it's 91 years old.

I also play a Bacon Orchestra ' C ' but it still has it's original friction pegs and it's a sod to tune.

I also have an Aria Mastertone copy standard tenor.

eric

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Sweetpete
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 12:15 PM

Hiden away some where is a Vaga Whyte Ladie that I bought 45pluss years ago for 75 bucks from a pawm shop in Chicago. Love it , but I play a Fender bluegrass type for my frailing. Just bought an Ode long neck. It needs some set up work, but I think I'm going to love it also.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: BanjoRay
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 12:51 PM

Last June I bought a Bart Reiter Tubaphone while on holiday in the US, from Billy Cornette of the Reed Island Rounders of Hillsville, Virginia. I didn't think it would ever take over from my Lo Gordon, but over the last 6 months it's snuck in and become my main banjo. It had a very low action when I bought it, so I've put a higher Snuffy Smith bridge on it, and now it takes clawhammer up the neck beautifully. It's tone is very sweet and it's volume is great for playing with my Appalachian dance team, without being drowned out by clattering feet. I still use the Lo Gordon for teaching, as it has a gentler sound.
Ray

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: MARINER
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 02:33 PM

The banjo I "play" (play is too strong a word, I'm a total beginner and only bought it 4 or 5 weeks ago)is a cheap Tanglewood left handed 5 string.Any other left handed 5 string players among you.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 04:18 PM

I play the Nonjo. It's a snap ro travel with, and its sound NEVER offends.

~Susan

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Songster Bob
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 04:57 PM

I have two "main" banjos, plus a couple of special-interest instruments, and some historical ones as well.

I have a 1923 (or so) Bacon Silver Bell with a 1980s Bates Littlehales neck. This was my uncle's tenor banjo (the tenor neck has disappeared, last seen with a baggie tied over the headstock to catch the falling inlay) that my friend Bates Littlehales made a lovely neck for. I currently use it with a contact mic pickup for my electric banjo needs (in Last Gold Dollar, "an electric tradition").

I regularly play (when acoustic banjo is needed) a 1925 Gibson Style 1 shell with a 1979 reproduction 5-string neck. I got it on eBay, intending to try to make a profit, but it's so sweet and easy-playing that I can't let it go. I play this with my other band, "Civil War Comrades," which features 19th-Century songs and tunes. We do the reenactor bit, in costume, though we haven't yet gone to using period instruments totally. I play, for instance, a 1923 Gibson A-4 mandolin, a style which post-dates the Civil War by 40 years, and there's a hammered dulcimer, too, one that's more advanced than the early dulcimers of that time. We do NOT, however, play steel-stringed guitars.

One thing we do feature in Civil War Comrades is a reproduction Minstrel-era banjo, with the scroll headstock, ogee carving in the neck, a deep 13" diamter shell, and no frets. I call it "Thumper," (actually, it was named by my wife, Jennifer Woods, who insisted I buy it), and keep it tuned to G instead of C (i.e., C tuning sounds in G; G tuning sounds in D).

I also occasionally play my late-19th Century English fretless banjo, made by Geo. Mathews of Birmingham. It's a honey -- loud, crisp and precise, unlike the Minstrel fretless. Nylon strung, too.

In addition, when playing music of the Victorian era, I sometimes reach for my S. S. Stewart "American Princess," made around 1890. It's a short-scale fretted banjo, strung with nylon strings (it should be gut, though I haven't tried that yet).

When I'm in the Mountain mood, I dig out my Frank Proffitt (style) small-head cherry wood fretless banjo that Alberto Vazquez and I built back in the '70s. It's fun to play, for sure.

I have a tenor or two, one possibly a Weymann, though that's not sure. I can get a tune from a tenor, but it's not my main banjo style.

However, my 1920s Vega mandolin banjo IS a style of instrument I play a lot, so I'm keeping that one, too. I bought it on our honeymoon, so it has sentimental attachments and can't be let go.

Not so attached, but fun to plunk on now and then, is my Goldtone guitar banjo. It has a Fender-style neck and a single-coil electric pickup. I'm going to have to try this with Last Gold Dollar, you know?

That's about it, I think. I'll check my list, but that's all I remember.

Bob Clayton

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 05:36 PM

Bob-

It sounds like you have quite a collection and keep them all in good working order.

I've got a pack of classic S. S. Stewart banjos, one of which I'd dearly like to find a good home for. It's a Special Thoroughbred Model 2, nice mother-of-pearl inlay in the peghead, simple diamonds inlaid on the fingerboard, deep carved heel, 12-inch head, and rare copper-clad rim. Send me a PM with your e-mail address if you have any interest in viewing a digital image of it.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 06:48 PM

Someone at a festival told me I play English Style ! Whatever THAT Means !

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 09:13 PM

Leadfingers-

Playing banjo "English style" means you get the same note plucking down as you get plucking up. If you play "Anglo style" you get different notes.

Think about that...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,banjoman
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 06:49 AM

Hi banjo players all - I started off with several "cheapies" and progressed over many years to Vega & Vega/Martin - great instruments which I used in the band and for solo work.
I never really found the "perfect banjo" so a few years ago I took one of the cheapies apart to see how it was made. From then on I have made my own banjos, mainly from bits & pieces and canabalized instruments
I currently use an open back with a fibreskin head and a kneck purchased on ebay (an old vega I think) it plays & sounds the way I want although it took a lot of adjusting and sawing/sanding to get it to that stage.
I currently own about 15 banjos which range from a 1920's Windsor which I have refurbished to a Gold Tone Long Neck which I think is a superb instrument.(a 60th birthday present from she who must be obeyed)
There's nothing better than to play the first tune ever on a banjo which you have made yourself and I think that anyone with a bit of basic knowledge should have a go.
My ambition is to find a really good fretless or to make one.
Great thread - keep on picking

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 07:17 AM

Actual banjos - The No1 is a Korean Maya resonator- Mastertone copy
                No2 is a pre war open back John Alvey Turner
                No3 is a 1900 ish 7 string Temlett
                No4 is a mid twenties Vega Copy open back short scale
                     tenor
                No5 is an Ozark banjola

There are several mandolin banjos and Banjoleles lying around as well

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: kendall
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 07:56 AM

I'm still looking for a good banjo with tuning keys that move easily without slipping, and a nice mellow sound. One that I wouldn't mind installing a couple of 5th string spikes.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 08:08 AM

Kendall-

We should consult.

I'll send you some digital images of the S. S. Stewart Special Thorobred. I haven't yet retrofit the tuning keys on that one but I certainly did so with the two other ones that I play regularly.

If I do achieve a sale, I will make the customary donation to Mudcat.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,Meredog
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 09:16 AM

started with a Kay--then a gibson Mastertone and now a B and D b#2 Special

B and D is the best hands down

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: Banjiman
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 09:55 AM

Looking at the luscious instruments mentioned on this thread I daren't admit what I play..........(but I like it!)

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,holland
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 04:03 PM

A Stelling staghorn from '76

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: GUEST,Stewart
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 05:17 PM

A lefty Ramsey Standard with 12" rim. Owned a Wildwood Troubador a few years back but found it was too heavy for any prolonged playing.

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: JedMarum
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 05:23 PM

... sold my beautiful Deering Longneck VEGA - and started carrying around a Deering Goodtime - head twisted down so tight it'd bounce a quarter off the ceiling - AND strings to tuned A - sounds pretty good! I also use a GoldTone banjola. Nice sounding instrument - but has its challenges for stage use.

Still - I'm thinking about a more serious banjo. No hurry ...

Subject: RE: What Banjo Do You Play?
From: sandy d
Date: 28 Dec 07 - 02:46 PM

A Clifford Essex with a skin head and nylgut strings. A old Windmill fretless made in 1929. A little mountain banjo. A lovely gourd banjo made in Alabama. A scooped Deering Goodtime and lastly, a no-name banjo bought on Ebay and made by the sellers uncle. It has a whiteladye tonering, renassance head and moon bridge, plays like a dream and I love it.