Used 5-String Open-Back Banjos
Maker: Bart Reiter
Year: 1989
Notes:
Bart Reiter Whyte Laydie #2.
Some playing wear, modest fret-wear in the first position.
Finish-checking.
Traditional Engraved Mother-of-Pearl Inlays.
Calf Skin Head.
Well-Travelled Harp-Tone Hard Case, Probably Original,
Used, but Sound.
Maker: Cole
Year: 1895
Notes:
Striking Reproduction 5-String neck from Padouk Wood with Ebony fingerboard by Steve Sutherland.
10" Original Cole Rim from a Banjo-Mandolin.
9 7/8" rim with 24 3/4" Scale Length.
Boat Heel.
Maker: Cole, Wm.
Year: 1897
Notes:
Rare Cole's Eclipse with spectacular engraved mother-of-pearl inlays [possibly by Consalvi] and carved heel.
The 3rd fret inlay appears to be a replacement. A couple of old repaired heel-cracks.
10 15/16" rim with 26" Scale Length.
Calf-Skin Head. The pot is all-original with the H&N sets apparently re-plated at some time.
A period and possibly original Elite tailpiece.
Original Grover friction pegs with ivoroid buttons.
Straight neck and good action.
Maker: Fairbanks
Year: 1995
Notes:
A.C. Fairbanks "Electric".
11 15/16" Rim with a skin head.
26 5/8" Scale.
Aquila Strings.
Pre-War Planet Geared Pegs.
Action is a little High.
Maker: Farland, A.A.
Year: Early 20th Century
Notes:
An Excellent and Original A.A. Farland
Classical Style 5-String Banjo.
12 5/8" Rim, 28 1/4" Scale.
German ABM Planetary Geared Pegs.
Carved Heel.
Hard Shell Case.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1963
Notes:
Gibson RB-170 Open-Back Folk Banjo.
Brazilian Rosewood Fingerboard;
There is a little honest playing wear,
but it's all-original, ready to go back out there.
Gig Bag
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1924
Notes:
An All-Original Style 4 Trap-Door Pot with
a Conversion Curly Maple 5-String neck, by
Intermountain Guitar and Banjo, 1990, #730.
Ebony Fingerboard and Style 5 Peghead Pearl inlays.
Old Silverplate, Original Tuners with Pearl Buttons.
10 1/2" rim, 24 1/2" Scale length.
TKL Hard Case.
Maker: Lyon & Healy
Year: 1920
Notes:
Lyon & Healy's "Own Make"
Professional Style B.
Special Patented Tone-Ring.
Classy Presentation.
Nearly Mint and virtually un-played.
Original Bump Case also in near-mint condition.
Maker: ODE
Year: 1965
Notes:
A very nice Muse banjo by ODE.
Brazilian Rosewood Fingerboard with 27" Scale.
Curly Maple Neck.
Original Iconic Ode Sliding Capo.
Clean, Straight and Original.
Modern TKL Hard Case.
Maker: S.S.Stewart
Year: 1890
Notes:
Petite Ladys' banjo from one of the premiere banjo-makers of the late 19th Century,
9" pot, 23" Scale.
Cherry neck with Ebony fingerboard.
Skin head, Aquila nylon strings.
Excellent and mostly original with modern replacement tailpiece.
Great Player.
Maker: S.S.Stewart
Year: ca. 1890
Notes:
A large early Stewart banjo, 13" head diameter from around 1890.
All-original but in well-used condition. Nicely carved heel, all pearl inlays intact,
no structural damage, but the metal skin on the rim
appears to have been aggressively cleaned a long time in the past.
High-ish action, but set up to play with Nyl-Gut strings.
Old Skin Head.
We are offering this instrument in AS-IS condition.
Comes with a gig-bag.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1964
Notes:
The iconic Pete Seeger Model ex-long neck Tubaphone banjo.
25 fret neck with 32" fret scale.
[Capoed at the 3rd fret, the fret scale for this banjo would be 27".]
There is some minor playing wear;
Light "capo-burn" on the back of the neck behind the 3rd fret.
A couple of finish dings and one small chip of finish on back of the neck
behind the 9th fret.
A 10 15/16" Tubaphone pot in looks-like-new original condition.
New Remo head. All-original Grover pegs and tailpiece.
New Gold Tone Hard Case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1924
Notes:
A Vega Regent 5-String Banjo.
Basically a Five-String Little Wonder.
All-Original except for the Planetary Geared Pegs.
Used, But Excellent.
Old Calf-Skin Head.
Original "Cammed No-Knot" Tailpiece.
Action is a little high.
Original Hard Case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1924
Notes:
A prime Vega Whyte Laydie, originally a plectrum and now a fine 5-string
using most of the original neck.
Great technique by Master Banjo Maker, Dick Powell.
Maple neck, 27" scale, 10 15/16" head size.
A great [almost] all-original Vega 5-String banjo.
Not a lot of these around.
New Hard Case.
