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 link or on thumbnail for more information

ca. 1880s J. Farris "E & F Tenor Banjay." Unusual collector's piece. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

Chuck Lee

2007 Chuck Lee Vintage Chalk Mountain 12-inch with purple heart wooden tone ring. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

2005 Chuck Lee Glen Rose "Electric" style 11-inch banjo. Excellent condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

2008 Chuck Lee Vintage Chautauqua 11-inch Silver Bell. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

2001 Ome Deluxe Juniper Open Back Upgrades include: Flushfit resonator, gold plating, engraved metal parts, "S" scoop. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

2007 Ome Juniper Megatone
A fine mahogany bluegrass banjo in near-new condition.
Click on link or on thumbnail for more information          2003 Ome Juniper Deluxe Megatone
A great bluegrass banjo at a great price.
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2003 Ome 12-inch Deluxe Silver Jubilee Great condition. Siverspun tonering. The other "Silver" means chrome plated in Ome parlance. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

2004 Ome Silver Juniper Deluxe Megatone Excellent condition--like new. "Silver" means chrome plated in Ome parlance. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

Orpheum (Rettenberg & Lange)

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

Ramsey (Chanterelle)

2005 Ramsey Maple One-Off. 12-inch, rolled brass tone ring. Excellent condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

Recording King

Used Recording King RK-50 Melody King "Woody-style" resonator banjo. Amazing sound and excellent condition. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

Kyle Smith

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

S.S. Stewart

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 information

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

Stelling

2008 Stelling Red Fox Previously owned, but dead mint and brand new! Click on link or on thumbnail for more information

Wildwood

	Used Wildwood Heirloom Tu-Ba-Phone tone ring, block pot, fancy-schmancy Fairbanks Whyte Laydie no. 7 engraved inlays. Click on link or on thumbnail for more information			Used Wildwood Custom Predominantly wenge neck, wenge block tone rim. An unusual piece! Click on link or on thumbnail for more information
	Used Wildwood Minstrel Tu-Ba-Phone tone ring, block pot, scooped. Click on link or on thumbnail 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)! $725, no case.

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