Cranky Yankee--

If Sweeney "invented" the banjo in 1853, how do you deal with the one illustrated on page 119, vol. 2 of the New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians? It's five-string, right handed, with six clamps holding the rim around the round, wooden head. It's attributed to William Boucher of Baltimore, Maryland, 1846, and is at the Smithsonian.

I have sometimes made mistakes in haste to do a post in a short window of opportunity, but this one I checked AGAIN and my memory was right. Anticipating a flame war, I'm off this thread; I have to deal with enough people who want to make ignorance a virtue. P.S. May the Lost Cause stay Lost.

:) CC