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- From: archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com (Archer Sully)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Re: build your own banjo!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.205650.25926@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:56:50 GMT
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- In <1hf9u3INNfvu@news.UU.NET> ebersman@uunet.uu.net (Paul A. Ebersman) writes:
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- *Jane> also, the stewart-mcdonald manufacturing company (POB 900,
- *Jane> athens, ohio, 45701) produces banjo and mandolin kits.
- *Jane> according to david burnor in "the next whole earth catalog" p.
- *Jane> 472 (new york: random house, 1980), "Their particular claim to
- *Jane> fame is their line of banjo and mandolin kits which provide
- *Jane> musicians with great sounding instruments in easy-to-build money
- *Jane> saving form."
- *
- *Steward MacDonald sells primarily bluegrass and upper-end backless
- *banjos. I don't recall seeing mountain style kits. However, the parts
- *of are good quality and the kits seem pretty well thought out.
- *
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- I made one of their mandolin kits years ago. For the money it is an
- excellent instrument, although not in the league with a nice Gibson
- or Givens.
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- -- archer
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