The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145910   Message #3388218
Posted By: GUEST
10-Aug-12 - 01:02 AM
Thread Name: Pete Seeger's banjo scale length
Subject: RE: Pete Seeger's banjo scale length
Has anyone noticed Jerry Walter of the Gateway Singers Vega banjo? Before he had the PS Vega, an album cover shows him playing a longneck Vega with just two additional frets. The peghead logo is the cheaper Vega silkscreened version as opposed to the pearl(?) VEGA and star logo that later adorned the peghead. I wonder if this was a factory neck or a repro. Also Jerry in earlier photos looked like he too had an Orpheum converted to a longneck. He even put the screw-eye in the neck like Pete did. Also at one time Ovation guitars made a guitar with three extra frets. Don't know if it's still in production or not.