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Price: $1600

From Pete Seeger's book,
"How to play the 5-string Banjo"

 

Joel W. Sweeney as leader of the famous "Virginia Minstrels" helped popularize the banjo throughout America and Europe. 

This banjo was made by Sweeney for his niece, who was left-handed.  Resource images, dimensions and rubbings of this banjo came from the original housed in the Los Angeles County Museum in 1976.  

Curly maple neck with a single-ply 12" Boucher style scalloped rim. Handmade brass hardware, rosewood tailpiece and tuning pegs. Natural skin head. Scale length is about 27" with the bridge near the center of the rim.
 

The neck is arched beginning from about the octave position to meet the rim below the tension ring.