Saturday, March 28, 2009
This is a beautiful 1893 SS Stewart American Princess from the Tsumara collection. (It is pictured on page 200 in the 1,000 Banjos book) I bought it from Bernunzios in 2007 and it is exactly like it was sold to me except I had a world class luthier put Damien Dlucki real gut strings (about a hundred dollars a set) on it instead of the nylagut it arrived with. Everything on it is original and it sounds and plays wonderful. It has the original ivroid friction tuners, a bone tailpiece, the thicker neck and a wooden inlay star in the peghead. It is serial # 2707. If you like vintage spun rim banjos--you will be thrilled with this one.
I'll put up photos and I just put up an MP3 of it playing Last Chance on my music page here at the Hangout.
http://www.banjohangout.org/myhango...usicid=12504
I have $1500 in this banjo and that plus postage is what I'd like to get for it.
It is a lovely banjo--but I prefer new banjos to vintage ones--but this is a fine player and collector's piece for someone who prefers the vintage banjos. :)
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