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.

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 ...

We want this one, though we don't know how we'll use it yet! The Earl Scruggs Golden Deluxe Banjo (£1,199) is a replica of the Gibson RB-Granada Mastertone five-string banjo used by the instrument's ...

Steve Martin, another Hall of Fame member whose banjo prowess was a cornerstone of his early comedy act, has owned a Gibson RB-18 five-string that once belonged to Mr. Sprung. “An argument could ...