ZEPP Country Music, Inc.

P.O. Box 306
4 East Third St.
Wendell, NC 27591-0306
Local: 919-365-5189 or Call Toll Free within USA: 866-365-5189
Fax: 919-365-5179

Used 2008 Bishline Heirloom Mint condition. Click on thumbnail or link for more information

Used Cedar Mountain FH1S 12-inch banjo. Great condition! Click on thumbnail or link for more information

1994 Deering Golden Era Great condition for its age! Click on thumbnail or link for more information

Chuck Lee

2004 Chuck Lee Chalk Mountain Prototype The first of its kind. Distinctive Lord of the Rings motif. Click on thumbnail or link for more information

Brooks Masten 12-inch A truly "hand-made" banjo in the style of a century ago. Sold Click on thumbnail or link for more information

2007 Ome Juniper Megatone
A fine mahogany bluegrass banjo in near-new condition.
Click on thumbnail or link for more information          2003 Ome Juniper Deluxe Megatone
A great bluegrass banjo at a great price.
Click on thumbnail or link for more information Orpheum (Rettenberg & Lange)

ca. 1915 Rettenberg & Lange Orpheum 12.25-inch pot with reproduction neck. That unique Orpheum sound! Click on thumbnail or link for more information

Prucha

2006 Prucha "Fall in Love" Withdrawn from sale by owner.

Kyle Smith

2006 Kyle Smith Legend A work horse for a professional. Click on thumbnail or link for more information

S.S. Stewart Vega

ca 1890s S.S. Stewart "Pony" banjo Definitely not a museum piece, but a fun little player! Click on thumbnail or link for more information

ca 1890s S.S. Stewart Special Thoroughbred Great condition for its age and mostly original! Click on thumbnail or link for more information

ca. 1928 Whyte Laydie pot w. reproduction neck by Wyatt Fawley This 10-15/16 inch no. 2 is in great shape for playing or just sitting around sitting around to be admired! Click on thumbnail or link for more information

Wildwood

Used Wildwood Custom Predominantly wenge neck, wenge block tone rim. An unusual piece! Click on thumbnail or link for more information

1926 Vega No. Little Wonder Style N with original used-to-be-a-tenor-now-it's-a-5-string neck.

This is a truly strange instrument. It is pretty much a low end, 17-fret Vega tenor banjo that is in so-so shape, except: Someone, somewhere along the line, glued a piece of rosewood along the side of the neck, drilled a hole in the mahogany, stuck a 5th string tuner in there, and made this into a functional 5-string!

Now, admittedly, this is not the neatest job, although whoever did it took pains to make the added piece fit around the tension hoop. It is, though, sorta cool.

It still has the original 4 friction tuning pegs in its rather simple and unadorned peghead, and all of those 17 frets are in good shape. Its 22-inch scale length would make it happy to be a "Bb" banjo, so it's a cool travel instrument, or would be good for a child.

It has a (soft) 10-15/16th inch skin head on it, and the bridge is sitting up on a thin sliver of rosewood, so it's a bit weak and thumpy sounding at the moment, but that's quite all right for a travel instrument, after all! It's also missing its dot inlays at the 5th & 7th frets. It plays easily (though there's not much to be gained by trying to "fret" the 5th string, as they don't extend over there...) Here's an MP3 of how it sounds (played right up against the mic; it's really not that loud!). And, in Oct 2007, I did this video of it (9 mb .wmv).

Anyway, it's here, and it's for sale (I kept it a few years)! $650, no case.

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