Prewar Gibson Banjos
Reverend Glenn Odell (1913-1984)
Looking for information about 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 pre-World-War-II and wartime Gibson banjos, both Mastertone and non-Mastertone models.
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Gibson Mastertone banjos by year
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30 August 2010
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