Levi Brown Banjo
c. 1858
$4000
26 inch scale length with the
bridge in the middle of the head
cherry neck with maple inlay on a rosewood fingerboard
Waverly geared tuners
Rosewood tailpiece
Synthetic head
"Renaissance head"
Fitted hard-shell case...add $200
Natural skin head.........add $150
Rhiannon Giddens "Julie"
Levi Brown was a contemporary of William E. Boucher Jr. also making banjos in Baltimore, Maryland in the mid 19th Century
The brass shield brackets,
hooks and nuts are copied from the original L. Brown banjo in the
collection
of
Stan Werbin
Curly cherry veneer over a 12" DIA x 3.25" maple rim
Fingerboard inlay $500
Rim ladder binding $500
