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SOLD: Builder’s Choice # 2731: Custom Possum w/ Vintage headstock

Grab this Custom Possum today before it’s gone! This banjo is built with a standard scale (26 and 3/16″) fingerboard in Persimmon with both face and side dots, and a vintage style headstock with quilted star inlay.  Featuring a 12″ Cherry rim and neck and paired with a built-in wooden tone ring made from Persimmon, this banjo has a nice warm and plunky tone, perfect for clawhammer.   Additional features include an s-scoop, Remo Fiberskyn style drum head, vintage heel, Pisgah Hawktail tailpiece, Mulheron bridge, antiqued brass hardware and JB Schall ball style bracket shoes. Comes with 5th string capo spikes on frets 7, 9, and 10 and Cherry armrest.

 

Case options: Access Padded Gig Bag w/ PBCO Logo  or  TKL Hard Case

Signature required for delivery.  Carries will be UPS or USPS.

 

 

SOLD: Builder’s Choice # 2653: Custom Rambler Dobson with Vintage Headstock

Looking for more volume?  This Custom Rambler Dobson may be for you! Built with a standard scale neck in Cherry and 12″ Stainless Steel spunover rim, this banjo has a great tone with plenty of volume, resonance, and sustain.  We built this one with a Vintage style headstock with quilted star inlay, aged brass hardware, Richlite fretboard with Copper face dots and an S-style scoop for easy frailing. This banjo is equipped with our signature Pisgah Hawktail tailpiece and PBCO Old Time banjo strings – perfect for Clawhammer!

 

 

Case options: Access Padded Gig Bag w/ PBCO Logo  or  TKL Hard Case

Signature is required for delivery.  Carrier will be UPS or USPS.

 

 

SOLD: Builder’s Choice # 2647: Custom A-Scale Possum, Fully Fretted, Curly Maple

Grab this Custom Possum now while you still can, and experience the joy of playing a fully fretted, A-scale banjo!

Featuring a Persimmon fingerboard, blonde Curly Maple rim and neck, and aged brass hardware, this banjo catches the eye and is a joy to play. The 12″ rim and built-in Persimmon tone ring give this banjo plenty of volume. The wooden tone ring and shorter neck length make this banjo nice and lightweight and very comfortable to play. With a fully fretted neck, you’ll have plenty of possibilities as you play up the fretboard and explore what your banjo can do. The Remo Renaissance drum head combined with Persimmon tone ring makes for a very clear and natural tone. Stuff it with a cloth for a softer tone.  This one won’t be around long!

 

*PRICE INCLUDES CASE*, which is our Access Padded Gig Bag w/ PBCO Logo

Signature required for delivery.  Delivery by UPS or USPS.

 

 

PBCO Koozie w/ Bear Design

Keep your beverages cool with our new koozies! Featuring original artwork by artist Sarah Koff with Pisgah Banjo Co logo featured on the opposite side.  These are great for camping at your favorite festival or simply using around the house while you relax with a cold one.

Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History

By Kristina R Gaddy (Author), Rhiannon Giddens (Foreword by)   An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, (read the rest…)

Wire Armrest

These Vega Style Wire Armrests give the look and feel of vintage armrests from the turn of the century. Made in raw brass, they are made to match an 11″ rim, but can be carefully bent to fit other sizes including banjo ukuleles.   These armrests are fully adjustable and can sit high or low above the banjo head, depending on your needs.  Easy to install, this armrest attaches to your existing brackets.  All that is needed for installation is a bracket wrench that fits the size of your tension nuts. Can be used by both right and left handed players.

FIDDLE STYLE BANJO BRIDGE

Banjo bridge innovation just raised the bar!  These beautiful “Fiddle Banjo Bridges” from Seeders Instruments are handmade using quarter sawn Maple and Ebony. It takes influences from the traditional violin bridge and its unique sound and vibration transferring principles. Every bridge has hand carved details and a compensated center string for improved intonation.  Add one to your banjo bridge collection.  It’s a joy to play!

POCKET-DIAL BY NASHVILLE BANJO CO

The Pocket-Dial is a simple, convenient and precise tool used to help measure and adjust the tension of your banjo head – one of the most critical factors in helping your banjo sound its best. It is small, lightweight, fits easily in your banjo case, and is specifically designed to work with both synthetic and natural skin banjo heads.

 

 

*This product will ship separately.

Banjo Roots & Branches

Banjo Roots & Branches – Edited by Robert B. Winans tells the story of the banjo’s journey from Africa to the western hemisphere. Blending music, history, and a union of cultures, Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument’s West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States.

The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo’s introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus.

Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots & Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados.