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

TOC W.A. Cole 10-inch spunover Good condition and very playable. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

2002 Deering Custom Gold-Plated, Engraved Black Diamond Very good condition, remarkably striking bluegrass banjo Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

2008 Deering Deluxe Left-Handed, 6-String Guitar Banjo Excellent good condition, Big banjo sound, but played as a guitar. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

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Dobson

ca. 1880s Dobson 11-inch spunover pot. Good condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

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ca. 1930 Gibson Arched Top Mastertone Pot With Repro. Neck. This fine old arch top pot has classic, pre-war sound!

ca. 1960s Gibson RB175 Longneck. Rolled brass tone ring, Cam-style D tuners.

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Ibanez

Gold Tone Custom OB-250 Gold-plated. Radiused fingerboard, Fults brand tailpiece, Sosebee brand bridge. VG condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

1977 Ibanez Artist 591 FB-BR Arched top, based on the 1927 Gibson TB5 "wreath." Good condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

Chuck Lee

2011 Chuck Lee 12-inch Custom w. Tony Pass Pot Maple neck, Tony Pass Lost Timbre old-wood rim. Custom inlay. Excellent condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

2006 Chuck Lee Chalk Mountain 12 Walnut neck, flamed maple pot with ebony tone ring. VG condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

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ca. 1960 Replica of a "Classic Prewar" Mahogany, resonator banjo with flat head tone ring and wreath inlay pattern. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

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2004 Ome 12-inch Silver Phoenix Open Back Maple neck, rolled brass tone ring, chrome plating. Very Good condition.

2005 Ome Silver Engraved Odyssey Maple neck, engraved, chrome plated metal parts. Excellent condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

2004 Ome Primrose Megatone Tony Pass "Lost Timbre" old wood pot, after-market chrome plaing. Excellent condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

2007 Ome Juniper Megatone A fine mahogany bluegrass banjo in near-new condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

ca. 1915 12.25-inch Orpheum Pot with Reproduction Neck Three-piece maple neck, 12.25-inch maple pot with raised tone ring. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

ca. 1915 12.25-inch Orpheum Pot with Reproduction Neck Five-piece flamed neck, 12.25-inch maple pot with raised tone ring. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

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2001 Ramsey 12-inch Cherry Special Cherry neck, 12-inch pot. VG condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

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2009 Recording King RK-R85 "Soloist" Maple neck and resonator, flathead tone ring. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

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

1975 Tennessee TTT-F Top Tension A classic example of top tension technology. Mahogany in average condition with Fults tailpiece. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

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Ca. 1919 Vega 11-13/16-inch Tu-Ba-Phone Pot w. Reproduction Neck A big vintage pot with a big sound. Flamed maple neck with backstrapping. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

Early 1970s Martin Vega Professional Tu-Ba-Phone-style tonering. Great for clawhammer or bluegrass! VG condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

Vega/Fairbanks/Deering Vega

ca. 1906 Fairbanks Whyte Laydie Pot w. Reproduction Neck Excellent neck copy, with reused headstock overlayment. Great shape Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information

2001 Deering Custom Vega No.2 Tu-Ba-Phone Chrome-plated. Natural finish, highly flamed maple neck. Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and 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)! $725, no case.

Ca. 1924 Weymann Keystone State "Piccolo" banjo A tiny, 19 fret banjo to be played about an octave higher than normal. These instruments are fairly rare these days! Click on link or on thumbnail for more photos and information