Songbob, according to the history here, "The Whyte Laydie and Tubaphone lines were Fairbanks/Vega's finest professional quality banjos, each offered in a relatively plain (No. 2 and No. 3, respectively) and very ornate (No. 7 and No. 9, respectively) model."

Currently, Deering is calling their Vega Tubaphone model the Vega #2.

From what I can find (like this, and this, and this), Vega didn't just do Fairbanks's banjos for a while, they bought them out for a token price. They carried the Fairbanks name for a while.

So, does Kendall really have two Whyte Laydies? Or what??

~ Becky in Long Beach