For the Deering John Hartford 5-String Banjo, Greg Deering combined years of experience with John Hartford’s research into the design of vintage banjos.
Vintage
One of the early G&L products was the L-2000 bass, introduced in 1980. This bass has been a success, and in 2003 the Tribute series was introduced to provide lower cost versions of the US built basses.
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MORE →The mahogany body National Reso-Phonic M-1 Tricone retains the lush complex trebles of the National Style 1 but the wood body changes the character of the bass response: in short, the bass is huge!
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MORE →This C. Bruno and Son fretless banjo arrived here about 15 years ago and has been in storage ever since. As is often the case with my “projects”, it was forgotten for years. I recently came into a lovely set of Ivoroid friction tuners that reminded me of the Bruno banjo and its need for appropriate tuners. This 130-year-old set of friction pegs were typical of the 1880s or 90s. And since they are synthetic ivory, they are legal under the CITES regulations.
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MORE →Designed by James D’Aquisto, The Hagstrom Jimmy was built in Sweden from 1969 to 1979 in two major versions – with an oval soundhole and a single neck-mounted pickup, or with traditional F-holes as seen here. This example of the Hagstrom Jimmy F-hole archtop was built around 1977, in the second variation of that model. In 1976, the bodies became all laminated birch (they had been laminated spruce), with birch for the neck, block inlays and rosewood fingerboard.
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MORE →The new Martin CEO-7 steel string guitar is based on guitars from the late 1920s and early 1930s, often called the ‘Golden Era’. These instruments are smaller, 00 size, with shorter scale lengths.
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