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Thread #51367   Message #782469
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
12-Sep-02 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: Help: FIESTA banjos
Subject: RE: Help: FIESTA banjos
Here's the site Les B. spoke of. However, no Fiesta brand listed. But check it out anyway - and not just the Asian banjo pages. He's got ton's of cool banjo stuff there.

Most Asian-made instruments are made in one of just a handful of factories (Sammick is a major one) and marketed under whatever brand name the person placing the order chooses. You could place an order for 500 banjoes from Sammick and have them branded "The Jimmy C. Banjo Co.". In other words, Fiesta didn't make the banjo. It's just a name stuck on it at a factory like Sammick. It could be identical to a Dixon or any number of other brands. Some of those types of brands don't stay on the market very long.

Bruce