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pisgahbanjos - Posted - 10/27/2025: 08:38:09
Hey Folks!
Ill be leading a panel discussion at this year's Banjo Gathering in chapel hill NC will be opening with a comprehensive list of past and present North Carolina Banjo makers. Please review the link below. happy for corrections, input and additions based on documented sources. Please no opinions or "hear say" sources
pisgahbanjos.com/the-banjo-bui...-present/
Randy Escobedo - Posted - 10/27/2025: 08:57:31
Dan X Padgett in Boiling Springs, NC would be a great resource to ask.
Slingerland - Posted - 10/27/2025: 11:35:30
I plan on being there this weekend and bringing two Proffitt (non-Glenn) banjos.
Other significant makers from Watauga Co. area:
Tedra Harmon
Frank Proffitt Jr. (not likely actually a makers, but worked “with” the Glenns and other(s))
Roby Hicks
Nathan Hicks
Edd Presnell
Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/27/2025: 12:33:16
I doubt Mike Ramsey made “thousands of open-backs”. Fewer than Bart Reiter I believe.
pisgahbanjos - Posted - 10/27/2025: 12:40:58
quote:
Originally posted by Bill RogersI doubt Mike Ramsey made “thousands of open-backs”. Fewer than Bart Reiter I believe.
Mike was in the 4000s when I last met him shortly before his death. I think Bart was very close to 5000 however you'll have to ask him. -Patrick
Bill Rogers - Posted - 10/27/2025: 13:19:48
Thanks Patrick,
I had no idea he was that prolific.
@pisgahbanjos
lightgauge - Posted - 10/27/2025: 14:18:35
I have no details, but C.E. Ward from the Concord area was well known 30-40+ years ago.
BanjoLink - Posted - 10/27/2025: 14:29:21
Did Bill Porter from Wadesboro make banjos? I know he supplied other makers with a lot of parts.
Jim Bollman - Posted - 10/27/2025: 14:55:44
I think it interesting that in my files I have virtually no 19th century makers south of Baltimore ( not counting some early mountain style banjos that may have been made before 1900 ). This probably warrants further investigation.
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