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It's a great time to upgrade your home music studio gear with the largest selection at. 1970 Vega Banjo Wonder Bobby Joe Fenster VIP VOX Ultra Dealer Sales Brochure. It is in great condition and has a Barcus Berry pickup installed. 1928 Fairbanks-Vega Whyte Laydie #7 $4,250.00 USD - Used - Excellent Condition. Really nice sound and quality instrument complete with hard case.

#Vega banjo models free#

I understand that Martin made about 1,000 banjos, a 100 of which were Fast & Free shipping on many items! Martin Vega Banjo V700 Nickel Wound 4 Strings. I was wondering if anyone one else on the forum owns a Martin made Vega Banjo. Beautiful flame maple neck and back, pearl inlays and an Ebony fingerboard.

#Vega banjo models serial number#

This one is serial number 650 42 Views0 Watchers. Vega Vega (Martin) VIP-T Banjo, mid 1972. 18 product ratings - Martin Vega Banjo Strings V730 Medium Nickel wound. Here is a rare Vega Banjo catalog January 1976 some prices written in also binder holes on front cover shows the vox. Martin made some banjos, and marketed import instruments, under the Vega brand name until March, 1979 when they sold the Vega rights to the Galaxy Trading Company, an Asian conglomerate. 4 Vintage Vega Banjo Strings Nickel Wound Chenilled NIP V10, V12,V16,V23. Watch Martin Vega Banjo V720 Nickel Wound 4 Strings. The Vega Earl Scruggs model banjo is quite a scarce instrument. Martin never made any metal parts for the banjos. Some, like brackets and nuts were purchased elsewhere others, like tone rings, were NOS that they inherited from Vega. It's been unused for many years, and I'd like to determine a fair price. This is a heavy ring with the pop and ring similar to other good bluegrass banjos. A little history of Vega | Martin tenor banjos. In the 1960s, Vega experimented with a few different variations of the Tubaphone tone ring. I'm considering selling a banjo I purchased used back in 1984. Near Mint condition and super rare, info has only 511 ever made from 1970 вЂ“ 1978! 9 sold. Vintage RARE Martin Vega Model VIP 5-String Banjo - MI Nazareth PA. Have questions about a vintage banjo? Vega Style X N0.9 with the fancier extended fretboard and short 21вЂі scale length. Features include: herringbone inlay is centered on the side of the resonator, there are thirteen pearl stars, representing the Thirteen Colonies, in the fingerboard, and a pearl eagle inlay in the headstock and on the back of the resonator. Only about one hundred 4-string Wonder models were manufactured at the Pennsylvania factory. This exceeds the number of VIP-5 banjos made which was an almost equally popular instrument. Gibson, Pisgah, Deering, and more available. If you continue, we will assume that you agree to our privacy policy which includes details of cookie usage.

#Vega banjo models professional#

This Vega Professional Tubaphone is sold with a hard shell case.Yates Carnegie #1 Pics added $5,200.00 USD - Used - Excellent Condition. Later on these tailpieces were re-jigged and made with a slightly larger, oval 5th string hole at the factory. The Presto Tailpiece is probably original or at least вЂњperiodвЂќ and it has the tiny hole drilled in the face to allow the 5th string to pass through. Lower action could be achieved with the aid of a neck reset It is currently setup at standard clawhammer action of 6/64 with a new Fiberskyn head installed. The warmth and power of the legendary Tubaphone tone-ring system was highly respected and in the 60s and 70s, many fine tenors had their necks removed and were converted to 5-string banjos. The pot came from a 1923 Vega Tubaphone banjo that almost certainly was built with a Tenor or Plectrum neck. quite a substantial investment at the time. The neck is a circa 1963 Vega Professional Model in good condition with minimal fret wear made when Martin Guitars owned the Vega company. This lovely old banjo is a mix of two Vega banjos: a product of 1960s Hootenanny era. Vega, now owned by Deering Banjos, is one of the oldest American banjo brands, founded in 1881 in Boston, Massachusetts. This is a Vega Professional Tubaphone openback banjo, with a neck from the 1960s and the pot from a 1923 Vega Tubaphone banjo, a conversion common in the 1960s.