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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:18:33 -0500
- From: "Jane F. Kinkus" <jk79+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: build your own banjo!
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- responses to the recent thread "simple banjo questions" has resulted in
- communication between me and steve goldfield (sag@hera.berkeley.edu)
- about where one can find banjo kits. steve writes:
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- >I know of two types of kits. The Sega company in South
- >San Francisco makes a sort of Whyte Lady kit for about $450.
- >Then the HERE company in Minnesota makes the mountain banjo
- >kit I mentioned for about $120.
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- for addresses & phone numbers, you can probably get your local librarian
- to look them up in a business directory or directory of manufacturers.
- (i could not find either of these companies in the "thomas' register of
- american manufacturers.")
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- also, the stewart-mcdonald manufacturing company (POB 900, athens, ohio,
- 45701) produces banjo and mandolin kits. according to david burnor in
- "the next whole earth catalog" p. 472 (new york: random house, 1980),
- "Their particular claim to fame is their line of banjo and mandolin kits
- which provide musicians with great sounding instruments in easy-to-build
- money saving form."
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- sorry i didn't have similar reviews for the other companies mentioned!
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- Jane Kinkus
- Science Information Specialist
- Engineering and Science Library
- Carnegie Mellon University
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