Thread: Banjos

Be interested in seeing pictures. There were a TON of makers in the early 1900s, and I'm not sure it's likely that we'd ever be able to find all of them.

the resonator always (on a modern mastertone style banjo) comes off with screws, just off of the flange.

There was a much more recent maker called Rich and Taylor that made banjos probably 20 years ago now or a little more. They are decent banjos (Greg Rich used to be a Gibson employee, maybe in charge of something there and Mark Taylor is the son of a Dobro player named Tut Taylor. I only know that because I'm still holding some of Mark Taylor's work that is so bad I'll never be able to get rid of it. Greg rich went on to brand banjos in china called "recording king").

Banjos, btw, aren't too hard on frets. The strings are pretty slack compared to a guitar, and the finger pressure needed is less.