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    Default Hi, I purchased this Banjolin at a Local Market

    It is signed on the back. Anybody Know who made this?
    Thanks so much
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    Default Re: Hi, I purchased this Banjolin at a Local Market

    The person that signed it didn't make it. These were stamped out by a few different companies and made for the trade with no label on them so the retailer or teacher or whatever could label them as they wanted to. It was built sometime around 1930, a little before or a little later.
    "It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
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    "Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
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