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Icons of the 60's, these banjos honor the brief, brilliant--but ultimately sad--legacy of California luthier, Art Gariepy.
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From vega nut on 2/25/2022 11:51:35 AM
I spotted a Gariepy 5-string on craigslist 2 weeks ago offered for $250. I read about them here on BHO and became interested. After listening to a few of them on youtube I was convinced. I contacted the owner and found it still available. Sight unseen, I gambled and offered him an extra $50 if he would hold it until I could drive up from where I live near San Diego to Sherman Oaks north of Los Angeles, a 291 mile round trip. Two days later I met with the owner, a very nice fellow who waited an hour for me at a grocery store parking lot as I struggled with miserable clogged LA freeways on the way up. He told me that his father bought it for him new around 1967 when he was a kid. Trouble was, that he is left-handed and the banjo is right-handed. He took a few lessons but never could cotton to playing banjo right-handed so he gave it up. The banjo was stored in the closets of his various houses ever since. It's the basic model with solid aluminum open back rim, 6 dot markers on the fret board and 2 dots on the black peg head. The banjo (production # 1-1611) is in excellent all original condition and is a veritable canon with excellent tone and mega-twang. It's very fun to play and the sound is extra rich. It has become an obsession, I can't put it down. When I'm not playing it, it now resides in a special place in my closet.
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