#87
Epiphone Bandmaster
Recording "B"
Vintage Tenor Banjo
Extremely RARE!
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Excellent Vintage Original Condition
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Original Plating
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Pearl Buttons on new tuners
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Epiphone Tailpiece (original)
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Slight Fret Wear
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Perfectly Straight Neck
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Great Sound and Playability!
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Hard shell case in fair condition (missing
handle)
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Bandmaster
- 1925-1935
- Also known as Recording Banjo Style B
- 4-string tenor (short scale)
- Brazilian Rosewood neck with center stripe
- White pyralin & multi-colored marquetry neck binding
- 5-ply Gaboon Ebony fingerboard
- Mother-of-Pearl 4-point star
fingerboard inlays
- Ebony headstock overlay with ornate Mother-of-Pearl inlay
- Amber tortoise shell pyralin veneered resonator & rear head
plate
- Resonator sides inlaid with two rows of hand-carved wood
marquetry
- Single ring of wood marquetry inlaid on resonator rear cover
- Grover DeLuxe tailpiece with spring cover & adjusting device
- Quadruple gold plated & hand-burnished hardware
- Tone ring mounts on pillars
- Side-notched hoop
- Single coordinator neck adjustment rod
- Rogers head
- Patented armrest
- 4:1 Grover DeLuxe banjo tuners with Pearl Buttons
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SOLD
$4250
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