Price: $2600
27" scale length
Maple neck
12" Boucher style scalloped rim.
Brass hardware
Rosewood tuning pegs & tailpiece
synthetic head
"Renaissance head"
"Peghed" geared tuners....................add
$150
Fitted hard-shell case.......................add $150
Natural skin head.............................add $100
Joel
W. Sweeney helped
popularize the banjo throughout America and Europe. He is
occasionally mistaken to be a member of the "Virgina Minstrels,"
although he sometimes performed with one or two of them.
This banjo was made by Sweeney for his niece, who was left-handed. Dimensions and rubbings came from the original Sweeney banjo currently housed in the Los Angeles County Museum.
from Pete Seeger's "How to Play the 5 String Banjo"
The neck is arched beginning from about the octave position to meet the rim below the tension ring.