What's new
March 8, 2010--I've spent the past few days correcting the entire site to reflect the revised chronology being established by Joe Spann's ongoing research. Bottom line--your prewar Gibson banjo is likely three to five years older than you've always thought it was!
March 7, 2010--New research by owner Ken Landreth has established a revised provenance for RB-1 #9563-14.
February 15, 2010--Here's yet another great "under-the-bed" find. . . the fanciest ukulele-banjo offered by Gibson.
February 1, 2010--Here's another fully original banjo from the family of the original owner. . . and it comes with an important piece of documentation.
January 26, 2010--From the original owner's family comes a previously undocumented one-piece-flange Studio King tenor!
January 21, 2010--Today we have a nice, fully original TB-3 with a two-piece flange and no-hole archtop tone ring. Check out the surprise inside the resonator!
January 12, 2010--While nothing can equal the experience of hearing a prewar Gibson banjo in person (or preferably playing it yourself), I hope to add more sound files to the site in 2010. Here's a good one to start with. . . the owner of PB-4 #9525-6 plays his original composition "Nicomede".
January 3, 2010--Happy New Year! 2009 was a year of very exciting vintage banjo discoveries and I can't wait to see what comes to light in 2010. We start off the new year with RB-4 #9474-3, the third five-string flathead RB-4 ever made.
