Brass pot banjo - Minstrel Banjo2024-03-29T15:34:05Zhttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/forum/topics/brass-pot-banjo?commentId=2477478%3AComment%3A149294&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThanks for the wonderful phot…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2016-06-12:2477478:Comment:1492942016-06-12T15:19:11.625ZJim Jacquethttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/JimJacquet
Thanks for the wonderful photo, Bob!<br />
The looks like a top-tensioning system, somewhat like the H.C. Dobson 1867 patent, although Dobson supported the whole thing inside a large wooden resonator.<br />
Not sure if this is how an internal tension system would look from the outside...maybe.....
Thanks for the wonderful photo, Bob!<br />
The looks like a top-tensioning system, somewhat like the H.C. Dobson 1867 patent, although Dobson supported the whole thing inside a large wooden resonator.<br />
Not sure if this is how an internal tension system would look from the outside...maybe..... Here's a carte de visite phot…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2016-06-12:2477478:Comment:1495822016-06-12T07:01:18.904ZBob Sayershttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/BobSayers
<p>Here's a carte de visite photo from my collection of a man in Ionia, Michigan playing a bracket-less banjo, with what also looks to be an internal tensioning system. Anyone know anything about the maker? (I've cross-posted this at Banjo Hangout, since Jim started the discussion over there.) </p>
<p>Here's a carte de visite photo from my collection of a man in Ionia, Michigan playing a bracket-less banjo, with what also looks to be an internal tensioning system. Anyone know anything about the maker? (I've cross-posted this at Banjo Hangout, since Jim started the discussion over there.) </p> Hmmm...have to admit that pos…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2016-06-11:2477478:Comment:1492912016-06-11T18:25:23.602ZJim Jacquethttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/JimJacquet
<p>Hmmm...have to admit that possibility never occurred to me. It is as good a theory as any, but I tend to assume these old banjos have all been used at some point. </p>
<p>Thanks for answering!</p>
<p>Jim</p>
<p>Hmmm...have to admit that possibility never occurred to me. It is as good a theory as any, but I tend to assume these old banjos have all been used at some point. </p>
<p>Thanks for answering!</p>
<p>Jim</p> I don't see any indications o…tag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2016-06-11:2477478:Comment:1495762016-06-11T18:22:01.231ZStrumeliahttp://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/Strumelia
<p>I don't see any indications of it ever having been finished and used. Perhaps someone just never finished it and never drilled bracket holes? That would be my guess considering there are no telltale signs of it ever having been played. </p>
<p>I don't see any indications of it ever having been finished and used. Perhaps someone just never finished it and never drilled bracket holes? That would be my guess considering there are no telltale signs of it ever having been played. </p>