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Recording King is a musical instruments brand currently owned by The Music Link Corporation, [1] based in Hayward, California, which also produces other musical instrument lines. Range of products commercialised under the Recording King brand are acoustic and resonator guitars, and banjos . [ 4 ]
Banjo guitar, also known as banjitar [1] or ganjo, [2] is a six-string banjo tuned in the standard tuning of a six-string guitar (E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4 from lowest to highest strings). The instrument is intended to allow guitar players to emulate a banjo, without learning the different tuning and fingering techniques required for the standard five ...
[1] Banjo-MH Powered version of the Banjo, with a retractable tractor configuration Hirth F33 two stroke 21 kW (28 hp) motor powering a two-bladed wooden propeller. Fuel capacity is 14 litres (3.1 imp gal; 3.7 US gal), gross weight is 260 kg (573 lb) and load limits +4 and -2g. The aircraft has a best glide ratio of 28:1. In production in 2011.
Gibson manufactured banjos in the years before World War II.They are differentiated from later Gibson banjos by their scarcity. Banjo sales plummeted during the Great Depression, for lack of buyers, and metal parts became scarce into the 1940s as factories shifted to support the war. [1]
The book Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument (2005) outlined the process by which Henderson built a guitar for Eric Clapton. [3] In 2008 he was the subject of an Appalshop documentary, From Wood to Singing Guitar .
The Deering Banjo Company was started in 1975 by Greg and Janet Deering. They are located in Spring Valley, California. It is now run by their daughter Jamie Deering. [1] Deering Banjos makes Deering, Vega, Tenbrooks, and Goodtime banjos. Many notable banjo players play Deering banjos.
English: Gibson RB-1 (1933), RB-00 (1940), PB-3 (1929) banjos at the American Banjo Museum. The RB-1 is similar one owned by Dave Macon in that it has the same fleur-de-lis inlays and possibly shape of head-stock.
The repair shop occupies about 3,000 ft 2 (280 m 2) of space in the Elderly building. [22] A number of notable guitarists have sent their instruments to Elderly for complete restoration or other major work such as refinishing and refretting. [11] Elderly's repair department services other fretted instruments such as banjos, ukuleles, and ...