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455 items marked down. Including: 45 mandolins, 76 banjos & 233 guitars.
The 12th Edition of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival: June 21-29. Check it out!!!
5-String Open Back Hard Shell Banjo Case Price:
$80.00
5 String open back hard shell banjo case made of plywood with a tolex covering. Measures 12 inches in diameter, 38 inches in length, and 2 1/2 inches in depth. The outside is in good condition with wear, including some ungluing and tear of the...
A. C. Fairbanks Neapolitan Style Price:
$1250.00
A wonderfully original and nearly unplayed A. C. Fairbanks mandolin from the 1890s. This instrument lay, untouched for many years and is crack free with a playable neck and perfectly arched top. The mandolin is highly ornamented in the tradition of...
A. C. Fairbanks Robinson Improved Price:
$1699.00
One of the special banjos made by Fairbanks for well-known Boston teacher Gad Robinson; the neck is mahogany and ornamented like a Fairbanks electric with engraved pearl moons, leaves and teardrops throughout the fingerboard and peghead; ebony...
African Finger Harp Price:
$495.00
This is an interesting, stringed instrument from the East African nation of Tanzania. It consists of an open carved retangular box 18" in length and 3" wide with a nine inch female figure extending from one end. The box is fitted with 6 strings....
African Gourd Lute Price:
$699.00
This is an instrument that we recently purchased from a trader who brings us djembes. He lives NYC and imports artifacts from his travels throughout the small villages in Western Africa. We have been asking him the find an original akonting, the...
African Mbira Price:
$299.00
African Mbira; this is an ancient, original African instrument purchased from a collection
African Ngoni Price:
$995.00
This is one of the African ancestors of the banjo. It is an ancient ngoni or xalam from West African in Guinea or Mali. The instrument is comprised of a gourd 17" in length and 7" across. The skin head is tacked on and the three stringed neck runs...
Aquilla Price:
$1800.00
This is an interesting, early guitar with abalone trimmed spruce top and Brazilian rosewood back and sides. There are two repaired top cracks behind the bridge and the back and sides have been refinished and a repair to the heel of the neck....
A. Stradivarious Price:
$99.00
Nice, 3/4 violin made in Czech republic; no cracks to the body or neck; needs tailpiece, nut, bridge and set up.
August Pollman Price:
$899.00
RARE variant of the mandoline-banjo with 6 strings and all tuners in the peghead; tear drop shaped body with spruce top; Slightly bowed neck but 120 years of patina
Bacon and Day (by Gretsch) Senorita Price:
$269.00
Mid 40's B & D with a maple neck and resonator. Celluloid veneer on headstock, fingerboard, pot and resonator. Bound fretboard with dot markers. 19 frets and an 11" head with 24 brackets and shoes. Has the original Armrest and a Gretsch...
Bacon and Day Silver Bell No. 1 Price:
$1299.00
17 fret tenor with Silver Bell tonering with holes on the inside; curly maple neck with ornate pearl in peghead; 22 inch scale; nickel plated hardware; f hole flange with refinished maple resonator; this is a very fine, short scale banjo set up for...
Bacon and Day Silver Bell No. 1 Price:
$1399.00
A very nice, complete, Silver Bell with f hole flange and solid, non-perforated tone ring; Complete with Oettinger tailpiece; soft pedal knee mute, planet tuners. This banjo is in good playing order. There is playing wear on the first 6 frets and...
Bacon and Day Silver Bell No. 1 Special Price:
$1895.00
Well preserved Bacon and Day tenor with a soft pedal mute. All inlays intact including peghead B&D symbol. Nickel flange coupled with a curly maple resonator. Nicely figured curly maple neck and pot. Tailpiece works with a nickel arm for each...
Bacon Belmont Price:
$699.00
This is a Gretsch made banjo with pearloid peghead resonator, rim and peghead overlay. The rim has full resonator with cloverleaf flange. This instrument currently is in the repair shop for set up and cleaning.
Bacon Blue Ribbon Style A1 Price:
$1750.00
This very sweet 17 fret tenor is in amazing shape and with its skin head, sounds like the beaut she is. Beautiful low end and clear singing high end. This is a player's tenor banjo. Not to be hung on a wall, but to be relied on as a solid...
Bacon FF Professional Sold Price:
$999.00
This is an early era Bacon banjo with very few marking on it. The neck looks as though it was refinished at one point long ago. The 11" rim has the classic Bacon tone ring with an unusual cut out pattern not often found on the internal resonator....
Bacon FF Special Grand Concert Sold Price:
$2995.00
This is an original banjo which appears have been made by Bacon. It has the Forestdale VT tag on the stick and has some of the hallmarks of the Orpheum banjos including fancy mother of abalone inlay in peghead and fingerboard. The neck has a 28 inch...
Bacon Folk Model Sold Price:
$699.00
Original long neck Bacon with simple tonering. A great player and THE weapon for community organizing. 31 3/4" scale and 1 3/16" nut.
Bacon Recording King Price:
$3500.00
This is an original five sting banjo with resonator and tulip flange. It is the only one of its kind we have ever encountered. It is possibly an early Gretsch made banjo or one that was made by Fred Bacon himself.
Bacon Style C Sold Price:
$800.00
Extremely rare model with carved top and back equivalent to the Gibson oval hole mandolins of the day. This would make and excellent classical or Old Timey instrument. It is complete with no repairs or damage over the 90 years of its lifetime. is...
Bacon Wrench Price:
$50.00
This is an open "box style" wrench that was equipment used for the Bacon and Day line of banjos in the 1920s and 30s. Price is for ONE WRENCH.
Banjo Heels Poster Price:
$125.00
This is a framed poster from "Pickin" magazine from the 1970s featuring the artistry of heel carving. Wooden frame; 15 x 19
Banjo Tuners (set of 4) Price:
$100.00
This is a set of 4 friction tuners for an early banjo or ukulele. The buttons have and unusual, transparent look to them. Complete with ferules.
Banjo Tuners Set of 4 Price:
$85.00
This is a set of 4 tuners suitable for a banjo from the classic period. These would be suitable for banjos by Fairbanks, Stewart, Vega, Weymann. They are complete with grained, ivoroid buttons
Bohemian Made Antonio Stradivarius Copy Price:
$75.00
Bohemian Made Antonio Stradivarius Copy in as is condition. Body is separating near tailpiece. No crack in spruce top or book matched maple back. Two tuners in peghead missing. Good project for restoration.
Bruno Tempo Grand No. 2 Price:
$1199.00
Bruno Tempo Grand No. 2 with some nice extras. First off its a stellar and exceptionally rare banjo with a mostly straight maple neck (5% relief), birds eye maple pot and spin on Elton resonator and matching Elton pickguard. All inlays are intact...
Cabinet Card Guitars and Price:
$55.00
Four men in formal dress playing stringed instruments: two parlor guitars, a mandoline banjo, and a bowl-back mandolin.
C. F. Zimmerman Harmonette Price:
$69.00
Introduced in the late 1890’s by well known zither firm C.F. Zimmerman, the Harmonette was the company’s attempt to market an autoharp to children. This is an 18 string three bar diatonic model tuned F. The back is separating from the bridge block...
Cole 8125 Price:
$299.00
Banjo mandolin with a 9 inch head and original ebonized bridge. Nicely engraved pearl inlay, and cloud cover tailpiece. Rim is like a small eclipse rim with tone ring. All original but for the neck collar. Great player with a nice clean bright...
Cole Eclipse Model 2500 Price:
$1250.00
10-1/2" Eclipse rim; mahogany neck with 27" scale and boat heel; ebony fingerboard with highly engraved inlays all the way down the fingerboard. The fine detailed work can leave you wanting to just display this instrument. The simple tone ring gives...
Concertone Button Box Accordion Price:
$199.00
This is a small button box measuring 10" x 9" and marked Concertone. It has 10 keys and 4 chord buttons and 10 fold bellows. This is a good solid player. Its made in Germany. One of the chord keys sounds fine for a moment, then gurgles like the...
Danelectro Coral Firefly Price:
$995.00
We have been informed that the neck and the body of this instrument are from different guitars. The body was found in the old Dano factory building long after it had been abandoned. The body had never been attached to a guitar. Using parts from...
Dixie Banjo ukulele Price:
$299.00
This is an all metal instrument including neck and rim. The neck has fluted back and integral frets, chrome plated, 6-3/4" skin head, 13-1/4" scale, 1-1/4" nut width, friction tuners with white buttons. This is an earlier model with dark red,...
Dobro Tenor Resonator Sold Price:
$995.00
Dobro tenor guitar with wooden body. The neck has a 23 inch scale and is equipped with original Grover tuners. The mahogany body with two screen holes is bound top and back. All original except the tailpiece.
E. Hammig Unmarked Price:
$995.00
This banjo is identical to Hammig banjos built in New York City although it has no makers stamp. The banjo was originally built as a six string it is currently strung and being used as a normal five string. This instrument has an 12" all spun over...
Epiphone Adelphi Price:
$995.00
"A" style mandolin with segmented "f" holes and raised pickguard. The "MASTERBILT" decal in the body and the peghead decal are intact but it appears that the mandolin was oversprayed. We have seen many Epiphones from this period with a finish that...
Epiphone Broadway Price:
$2999.00
Very rare model with walnut back and sides and offset peghead with fancy pearl inlay. This is a great older Jazz guitar with 17" wide body but a light feel and a great, clear voice. The instrument was completely restored by Dowd Music of Toronto,...
Epiphone FT-79 Texan Price:
$2950.00
This mid sixties Kalamazoo made guitar sports a 1 1/2" wide nut width. The slope shoulder body gives a huge thumpy low end and powerful mid range. The back has two repaired back cracks and the top has a repaired pickguard crack and one in the...
Epiphone Recording B Price:
$0.00
Original custom order chrome plated Epiphone Recording B tenor banjo. Comes with original hardshell, but one hinge is broken and the case is warped. New case recommended. Currently in the shop for partial restoration/set up. Check in again soon!
Eze Tune Price:
$45.00
This is an interesting banjo tailpiece from the Dixieland days. It has four adjustiong screws for fine tuning the instrument.
Fairbanks by Vega Little Wonder Sold Price:
$499.00
This is a short neck tenor with 20" scale and 10-3/4" rim. This is a sweet little open back tenor suitable for early Dixie or Celtic music.
Fairbanks by Vega Regent Sold Price:
$1699.00
Original 5 string banjo with 3 piece maple neck, bound ebony fingerboard, engraved dots and star, pearwood peghead overlay with engraved gryphon and flower. This neck is identical to that used on the Whyte Laydie #2. The rim is 10 -3/4 inches, is...
Fairbanks by Vega Style R Price:
$999.00
This is an excellent quality short scale tenor banjo suitable for modern Celtic music. The rim is the classic Whyte Laydie with scalloped tone ring and heavy bracket band and measures the standard 10-3/4" in diameter. The three piece neck is bound...
Fairbanks-Vega Imperial Electric Price:
$2899.00
A very fine banjo with 10-3/4 inch wood rim with scalloped Whyte Laydie tonering; bound mahogany neck with 26 inch scale, small torch inlay in peghead; pre war planet tuners and geared fifth added. This banjo has all the punch of a Whyte Laydie but...
Fender Jazzmaster Price:
$4995.00
Original Olympic white finish with matching headstock. This has barely been played. The P-90's are hot as hell and have killer tone. This guitar was made in the Fullerton plant in '63 and features an ash body, maple neck and rosewood veneer...
Fender Princeton Price:
$799.00
Great looking and sounding black face amp. The Princeton is a great amp for nearly all playing styles and has a great tone for jazz and blues. These amps make a wonderful companion to the session musician, easy to carry and plenty of volume.
Fender Stratocaster Price:
$16999.00
Sweeeet ca. '57 strat! This old gem features the original ashtray cover over the bridge. The sunburst finish is checked like any good old guitar should be. Original pickguard, pickups, switches and knobs. The neck appears to have been refinished...
Five String Banjo Tailpiece Price:
$55.00
This is an early metal tailpiece measuring 1-1/2" in length and consisting of five "nubs" as on no knot tailpieces as well as a "T" for holding the strings down. It is complete with the hanger and is brass with no plating.
Gatcomb Model 50 Price:
$1499.00
This is a higher model Gatcomb with 26 inch scale, mahogany neck with ornate, snail shell inlay throughout the fingerboard, and peghead. The 11" spun over rim features colorful, Greek key marquetry on the inside. Undergoing restoration, call for...

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