1880s Lyon & Healy Banjo with 12" Rim
Added 2020-06-12 18:58:23 +0000 UTC1880s Lyon & Healy 5-string banjo made in Chicago, Illinois. This example has a 12" pot, 28" scale, original tuners, and most of the original ball-end tension nuts. Ball-end nuts, marketed to "lady" banjoists who advertisers claimed were concerned about clothing snags, seem to have declined quickly in popularity after about 1890.
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Thanks, Matilda. These are the type of first-hand observation that I value.
Clifton Hicks
2020-06-15 15:49:40 +0000 UTCSold! I know you've emailed me, you're on my list.
Clifton Hicks
2020-06-15 15:49:03 +0000 UTCClifton, is this for sale?
Jamie Atkinson
2020-06-14 05:19:50 +0000 UTCI can vouch for the fact that clothing snags are a real thing on flowing frocks whilst playing banjo. Funnily enough my clothes often snag on the tail piece!
matilda ramsay
2020-06-14 01:36:40 +0000 UTCCouldn't agree more. The Marxism won't fly.
Richard Hawkins
2020-06-12 20:56:26 +0000 UTCShip that one to Canada too?
Seth
2020-06-12 20:05:32 +0000 UTCAnti cop songs?......Cops in America are militarized and they afflict black and white people equally. However, the current uprising is a marxist rebellion by ANTIFA and BLM, and if it is not stopped we will have a race war in America, and that is exactly what the 1% want.
Mr. Lucky
2020-06-12 19:56:41 +0000 UTCHey Clifton ,video unavailable....whats up.
norman dion
2020-06-12 19:47:09 +0000 UTCNice and plunkey, just how I like em. There seems to be a tone in those older banjos that I just cant get in my new one. I bought a 1880’s Fairbanks off Cliff about 2 years ago and its still my favorite banjo. I’d be after this one if I wasn’t broke right now.
Nate Bowser
2020-06-12 19:37:14 +0000 UTCThanks Clifton, great playing! Of course! I love those ball end brackets, I have an 1880’s Oakley banjo, friction pegs, wood rim, with ball end hardware like that. It’s so cool looking but I never knew why they made it that way. Now I know! Thanks!
Cindy Barrett Gilchrist
2020-06-12 19:07:51 +0000 UTC
