Two banjos in Germany

Hi all,

there's two interessting banjos for sale in Germany.

First there's a "Concert 981". It doesn't say a maker. Anyone know anything about these?

Concert 981

And then there's a much more interessting piece (I think :-)). A zither banjo made, I guess, by Barnes and Mullins. I'm actually considering this one, specially if I manage to get the price down. Does anyone have experience with Barnes and Mullins zbs? And know anything about this modell?

Zither banjo

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Jody Stecher on April 9, 2020 at 22:56

I have had two Barnes & Mullins banjos, a zither-banjo and a regular open back 5 string. I think the Z-B was made by Abbott.  It was very good. The other I'm not sure about but it was a high quality instrument. The z-b had a screw-in capo with a threaded hole at fret 5 and an ivory nub below the 5th string at fret 10. This was for purpose of converting to Instant Banjeurine.

Permalink Reply by marc dalmasso on April 10, 2020 at 6:51

the 981 shows many details  we could think it was made by Dallas   ( end of the DS  ,  dots  each fret ,  peghead  )

Permalink Reply by Jody Stecher on April 10, 2020 at 15:10

In fact it says right on the eBay page that it was made by JE Dallas.  I'm thinking that Concert is the model name and 981 is a production number. 9 could stand for 1890 and this could be the eighty-first JE Dalllas banjo made that year. Just a guess . This is looks like a fabulous banjo, Old JE Dallas banjos can sound amazing. The best sounding open back banjo I ever played was a Dallas owned by a friend in Australia. Everything about the construction suggested it should sound very good but not out-of-the-ordinary but in fact the sound was stupendous. 

marc dalmasso said:

the 981 shows many details  we could think it was made by Dallas   ( end of the DS  ,  dots  each fret ,  peghead  )

Permalink Reply by Pär Engstrand on April 11, 2020 at 7:35

Thanks for the input, guys.

On the page it says in the style of Dallas. The seller doesn't actually know who made it.

Well, it sure looks like a nice banjo. Pitty I can't afford it at the moment.

Permalink Reply by Jody Stecher on April 11, 2020 at 18:50

Silly me, assuming I knew what it meant when I  actually can't read (understand) German....

Pär Engstrand said:

Thanks for the input, guys.

On the page it says in the style of Dallas. The seller doesn't actually know who made it.

Well, it sure looks like a nice banjo. Pitty I can't afford it at the moment.

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