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User Name | Thread Name | Subject | Posted |
Downeast Bob | Longneck banjo (59* d) | RE: Longneck banjo | 08 Aug 00 |
Jed asked if Fairbanks was a forerunner of Vega. Not exactly, but in sense, yes. The A.C. Fairbanks Co. in Boston manufactured some of the finest open back 5-string banjos ever made, especially in the 1880s. On March 4, 1904 a fire devastated the Fairbanks factory on Washington Street. After the fire, Vega, which had been making banjos in Boston since 1881, bought the company and the rights to produce the patented Fairbanks models. |