Van Eps Recording Banjos

[John Cohen]

Does anybody have experience with these, especially the earlier non-flush fret models? Are they very good banjos?

[thereallyniceman]

The guts out of the Van Eps recording banjo seem to have disappeared!

... and the strings look mighty thick. The 5th looks like a rope :-)

[John Cohen]

The owner doesn't have them installed right now, but he still has them.

thereallyniceman said:

The guts out of the Van Eps recording banjo seem to have disappeared!

[Jody Stecher]

Any banjo at all will sound thin and sharp with that much stuffing behind the bridge.

[marc dalmasso]

This banjo looks like to be exactly the same Eric S own and play here on his videos ; 12 inches ; he removed the internal cymbal reso because it was too loud ;

the neck is very , very narrow and parallel 'cause FVE used to play in the trebbles of the banjo using chord positions ;

i checked several times Eric ' s banjo ;amazing but  it 's not for me because of the narrow neck

[John Cohen]

I went ahead and made the trade.  I'm really looking forward to the 28 1/4'' scale length!  Now I've got to find an ebony two-foot bridge like the one Paul Cadwell uses here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwzxL537EPg

[Trapdoor2]

That's a neat video. The first tune is "Tyro Mazurka", a popular teaching tune in the late 1890's. A bit jazzed up from the student version!

[thereallyniceman]

Hi John, We had quite a discussion about Paul Cadwell, his banjo and his bridge earlier this year in a post by Joel Hooks.

Here is a link to the:

PAUL CADWELL BANJO DISCUSSION