Country Music Hall of Fame member Scruggs' Gibson RB-Granada Mastertone banjo -- heard on his 1950 composition "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," played alongside Lester Flatt and the Foggy Mountain Boys ...

“There are a lot of guitar people in the country, not that many who specialize in old banjos," Dotson explained. "And we specialize on mostly Gibson banjos made between 1925 and 1942." And when ...

Maybe $3,000. Might have been as much as $5,000. APPRAISER: This is a 1929 Gibson Mastertone banjo. We took the back off, we looked at the serial number. Firmly 1929. It has gold hardware.

While its predecessors’ headstocks were given a two-layer holly veneer and banjo-style tuners, the Platypus has a flat headstock and six-in-line tuners. Throughout the ’60s, Gibson’s ...

Gibson makes guitars, banjos and mandolins. As more popular music has been made with computers, international guitar sales began to slip, creating a challenge for larger manufacturers and ...

One of you will play banjo and the other guitar.’” Gibson soon started taking lessons and remembers his teacher giving him a cassette of Earl Scruggs at Carnegie Hall. According to Gibson it ...

Bluegrass historians guess that Scruggs held his Gibson Grenada banjo near a light bulb so he could tune the instrument and obtain the proper tension. It’s a fair guess that Scruggs had no idea ...

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"George Harrison didn't want the silver salver, just the banjo ukulele, but dad wanted to keep everything together. That's why he wouldn't part with it." There are only three of the Gibson banjo ...