- Do you have any Piccoleles or banjos for sale?
- Do you do any custom luthiery work?
- I did custom luthiery work for 45 years and now I am retired and solely work on my own instruments.
- Can you help me identify or date my banjo?
- May I save images from this website on my computer?
- Yes. It has been very difficult to to get hi resolution images of old banjos on the internet I have found. Hence I am making my digital collection available for public interest and its educational value.
- How accurate are the dates on the ads and catalogues on this website?
- I have only posted verified dates from trade maqazines and journals here. The catalogue years are also from known dated sources.
- What is the purpose of this website?
- This website is mostly for informative purposes. I might add that I personally get a laugh out of the advertising techniques and graphics, and therefore assume others will enjoy it as well.
- The chronology of the banjo in various phases and configurations is clear from studying the ads here. There is a hilarious era of great confusion of the terminology of the newly emerged four string banjo that was not a ukulele. More....


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