Levi Brown Banjo
c. 1850
Price: $3200
Inlays on the fingerboard mark noting positions. The circle near the fifth string tuner marks the seventh position and the octave position is located at the point between the two bumps on the side of the neck. Brass geared tuners. |
Featured in "The Birth of the Banjo" exhibition, curated
by
Robert Shaw, Peter Sego
and
George Wunderlich, at the
Katonah Museum of Art in 2003
Exhibition
Catalog A 13.5" rim with a 30" scale length. Neck is solid rosewood and The rim is bent oak with rosewood veneer. The hooks and brackets are brass with a steel tension hoop.
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