Charlie Macrow--Johannesburg, South Africa--1936
Prewar Gibson Banjos
Charlie
Macrow--Johannesburg, South Africa--1936
Trying to identify your old Gibson banjo? You've come to the right place! The Gibson Mastertone banjo set a standard of excellence among four-string players beginning in the jazz era of the 1920s and has been the definitive banjo for bluegrass music ever since five-string virtuoso Earl Scruggs came to prominence as a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the 1940s. This website is your headquarters for serial numbers, dating, information and identification of vintage Gibson banjos, both Mastertone and non-Mastertone models.
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