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 ARCHIVED TOPIC: intersting chas a stromberg & son


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bargrasspicker - Posted - 05/20/2013:  14:27:46

the tailpeice and tone ring are very interesting



 



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Edited by - bargrasspicker on 05/20/2013 14:30:17

Deaf Lester Crawdad - Posted - 05/20/2013:  16:07:46

quote:
Originally posted by bargrasspicker

 

the tailpeice and tone ring are very interesting




 




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Looks like a Stromberg "Cup-O-Phone" tone ring.  (See below.)   First one I've ever seen that doesn't have a resonator.



~Pete




Stromberg tenor banjo headstock

Stromberg tenor banjo pot from rear.

Stromberg tenor banjo pot/tonering assembly from top.

Stromberg tenor banjo tone ring from oblique angle

bargrasspicker - Posted - 05/20/2013:  20:32:51

Is this the same stromberg that became stromberg voisenet? That would make this pre 1921 and this says made in Boston the stromberg I know of was out of Chicago

Bill Rogers - Posted - 05/20/2013:  20:44:23

Nope.  Completely different.  Stromberg was a high-end maker and according to Stromberg guru Vinnie Mondello, never made a 5-string.


mikehalloran - Posted - 05/22/2013:  06:54:05

Now if it was a Master 400 guitar by his son, Elmer,, it would be worth around $50,000, perhaps more.


bob ferrier - Posted - 05/24/2013:  07:39:50

Here are some pictures of an early Stromberg Plectrum banjo c. 1915.  Note the early tailpiece before the Stromberg name was applied. Not many plectrum banjos were made, mostly tenor banjos. What a sound! I believe that they were also using Fairbanks hooks before they fashioned their own.




Outside of pot

Stromberg Headstock

"Cuppo-phone" tone ring view

Stromberg Plectrum

Stromberg Tailpiece
   

Baconfine - Posted - 06/04/2013:  23:36:58

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quote


:in case you bought it congratulation.


So you in need of  a better neck??

Originally posted by bargrasspicker

 

the tailpeice and tone ring are very interesting




 




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