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Thread #145910   Message #3377280
Posted By: Stringsinger
16-Jul-12 - 06:20 PM
Thread Name: Pete Seeger's banjo scale length
Subject: RE: Pete Seeger's banjo scale length
Pete's original banjo with the People's Songs logo I believe was stolen.
His latest banjo contains a hard wood lignum vitae neck that is extended.
I think this might have been the one he inadvertently left on the top of his
car, a couple of years ago.

Pete is responsible for the innovation of the long neck banjo. In his instruction book, he illustrates how to dovetail an extended neck onto a standard one.

If I'm not mistaken, someone could tell me, I think his first banjo was a five-string Orpheum.

The scale length would be longer than that found on a four-string plectrum.
The Trujo banjo might correspond to Pete's banjo scale length.