Grade A banjos for sale

Silvio Ferretti, banjo-player with Red Wine, columnist for Banjo NewsLetter, and luthier, reports:

Right now I've got two banjos to sell:

- Scorpion #9, American black walnut neck and reso, ebony fingerboard, Prucha hardware, Pass Thin Skirt rim, Price Classic flathead ring (unplated). Peghead shape and inlays are 'mine', pearl work by Custom Inlays. Comes with a Saga ABS case.

- early '60s (I'd say) converted Gibson TB-100, curly maple neck (being finished at this time, already played in the white), Brazilian rosewood fingerboard with RB-75 inlays (hand-cut by David Nichols), Crowe ring, Prucha Presto tailpiece, Pavel pancake tuners.

The festival in Athy would be a good time and place for me to bring either banjo to the potential customer. Of course I can take jpg pics of them and record sound clips of both.

For the complete range of Silvio's highly regarded banjo bridges and one of his Scorpion banjos, see the Elderly Instruments website. Contact him by e-mail, and in good time; if he doesn't hear from an interested customer before the Athy festival, he'll be bringing over the 1985 Saga Kentucky which is his 'low-cost airline' banjo, and is not for sale.