Very common in the US as banjo-mandolin or mandolin-banjo. Was yours made in Portugal?
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Very nice. I've been curious about these but have never seen one to try out.
How does that neck joint work? Most banjo/mandolins I've seen on elderly or Bernunzio's websites or in classifieds/reverb are conventional 10 or 11 inch pots with a conventional banjo construction neck (either dowel stick or coord rods) to give it the right scale length.
This whyte ladyie (a tonering i really like) seems to have a slightly negative neck angle vs the 3 degrees or so that's common on regular scale banjos: https://www.elderly.com/catalog/prod...category/1097/
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I actually like these insturments very much. One day I might get one. I had one i was interested in a shop in Melbourne, but the owner couldn't remember if it was the one that had been left for repair or not (!). As I understand it, a banjolin has 4 strings and a mandolin-banjo has 8.
yours is beautiful.
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JBovier ELS; Epiphone MM-50 VN; Epiphone MM-40L; Gretsch New Yorker G9310; Washburn M1SDLB;
Fender Nashville Deluxe Telecaster; Squier Modified Vintage Cabronita Telecaster; Gretsch 5420T; Fender Tim Armstrong Hellcat: Washburn Banjo B9; Ibanez RB 5string; Ibanez RB 4 string bass
Pedalboard for ELS: Morley Cry baby Miniwah - Tuner - EHX Soul Food Overdrive - EHX Memory Toy analog Delay
Fender Blues Jr Tweed; Fender Greta;
I think we call the 4 string one a banjolele, like George used to play :
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There is a special place in Hell for these instruments, but they have their charms.
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Charms that can be observed from quite a distance, indeed. Shall I mention my own damnation? I'm damned twice. Both are Gretschs from about a century ago: a banjo-mandolin, inherited, and a banjo-'uke, lawfully acquired. The first led me into the sin of mandolin playing. The 'uke, strung re-entrant, has a nice ringing sound without *too* much frightening of the wildlife. But dare I appear in public with either?
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