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Reduced! Frank Neat Bean Blossom 5-String Banjo, 2003

On September 26, 2018   /    
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Reduced! Frank Neat Bean Blossom 5-String Banjo, 2003

This is an interesting piece – a Frank Neat Bean Blossom 5-string banjo, built as one of 22 Bean Blossom banjos, with the neck and resonator using walnut from a tree that grew next to Bill Monroe’s stage at the Bean Blossom festival grounds. Working from his shop in Russel Spring, central Kentucky,  Frank Neat builds some of the world’s finest banjos.   He’s run his shop since 1980.     

Price: $2995 CAD
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Deering Goodtime Six Steel String Banjo

On September 15, 2018   /    
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Deering Goodtime Six Steel String Banjo

The Deering Goodtime Six is a 6 string, steel string banjo, that tunes like a guitar and features a fast, sleek, and comfortable guitar style neck that feels like an old friend. The Goodtime Six harnesses Deering’s 41 years of banjo know how to put a much needed quality American made 6 string banjo within reach of any guitarist looking to add an authentic banjo sound to their arsenal without breaking the bank

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Deering Goodtime Banjo

On September 3, 2018   /    
Deering Goodtime Banjo

The Goodtime banjo produces a vibrant ringing tone from its natural finished violin grade maple rim. At only 4 pounds, the weight makes it ideal for both children and adults to play and to travel with conveniently. The Deering Goodtime open back banjo is  warm, woody and full sounding – it’s a great sounding clawhammer banjo for advanced players.

Price: $559.00 CAD
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❌ SOLD ❌ Williams and Son Echo Style 15 Open Back Banjo, 1895

On June 25, 2018   /    
❌ SOLD ❌ Williams and Son Echo Style 15 Open Back Banjo, 1895

Just in time for Canada Day, here’s an 1895  R S Williams and Son Echo Style 15 Open Back Banjo strung with nylon, built in Oshawa, Ontario.  To the Depression era, R S Williams was a prominent manufacturer of instruments, including pianos, guitars, banjos, mandolins and violins.

Price: $669 CAD

This instrument has sold

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Gold Tone OB-250 Orange Blossom 5-String Resonator Banjo

On June 14, 2018   /    
Gold Tone OB-250 Orange Blossom 5-String Resonator Banjo

The Gold Tone OB-250 has everything needed to produce THAT tone: a sand-cast bell brass flathead tone ring, a cast one-piece resonator flange circling a multi-ply maple rim with twin coordinator rods and an extra-deep curly maple multi-ply resonator for better low-end response. The curly maple neck has a bound ebony fretboard with hearts & flowers inlay. The bracket hooks even have metric threading to enable finer tension adjustment. “

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Gold Tone MM-150 Maple Mountain Openback Banjo

On June 13, 2018   /    
Gold Tone MM-150 Maple Mountain Openback Banjo

The Gold Tone MM-150 half-inch-thick maple rim carries an authentically-designed Whyte Laydie-style scalloped three-piece brass tone ring under an eleven-inch Remo Renaissance head. Premium parts include a comfortable maple neck, rosewood fingerboard with snowflake inlays and a frailing scoop, vintage Fairbanks-style headstock design, planetary tuners, Vega-style armrest, and No Knot tailpiece. The MM-150 is completely set up at the Gold Tone Factory.

Price: $939 CAD
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