old banjo;s

[graham brierley]

Dear sir I would appreciate some advice you could give me please if you can to enable me to put two of my banjo's back to their playable best .They are a Windsor Artiste No2 and an old Barnes and Mullins [ with Amboyna wood inlay to the body] which ,Im sorry to say have lived most of their lives under a bed,Both are in pretty good criginal condition but the neck of the B&M seems to have been repaired , very professionally in the past At the moment they have steel strings on them ? I dont know if this is correct or not and the Windsor has a small 2 footed bridge.The action on the neck seems about right but over the pot seems quite low. Any advice you could give me would be much appreciated Thank you Graham

[thereallyniceman]

Hi Graham,

I am no expert on Zither banjos, but there are several people on here who are, or you could check out David Wade's website www.zither-banjo.org where you will find a whole host of information on ZBs.

[skip sail]

Is it my imagination ,or has the Barnes and Mullins been "Seegerized" by lengthening the neck,the process of which is described in Petes early banjo book?

I have seen some truly evil seegerizations,the worst of which was an amateur job on a Bacon "chubby dragon"

Its hard to tell from the photo,but i hope it isnt the case! Nice old banjos.

[graham brierley]

As far as I know it seems to be a very professional repair to the neck done by  a very good luthier in the UK. I have looked at it a few times and I'm still not quite sure how he started to do it .I'll do some close up pics if you wish  Thanks for your interest     Graham