Fairbanks Five-String Banjo
Fairbanks Five-String Banjo
- Description
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This banjo was made by The A.C. Fairbanks Company of Boston, Massachusetts in 1899. It is a Five-String Banjo, Regent model, serial #18151, with a metal clad wood rim and maple neck, 28 brackets, ebony fingerboard with mother-of-pearl inlay, 22 frets, pearwood headstock with mother-of-pearl inlay, four ivory (one replacement) and one wood tuning peg. There is an engraved metal plate on the dowel stick:
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The A.C.FAIRBANKS Co
MAKERS
- BOSTON, MASS. – -
Albert Conant Fairbanks began making banjos in 1868 with William A. Cole, a well-known Boston banjo player and teacher. Around 1888, the A.C. Fairbanks Co., Fairbanks was joined by David L. Day. Six years later, Fairbanks sold his interest in the company to businessmen Cummings & Dodge. In 1904, the Vega Co. acquired the business and continued to produce popular banjos made by Fairbanks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- banjo
- date made
- 1899
- maker
- A. C. Fairbanks Co.
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- Physical Description
- wood (part material)
- ivory (part material)
- mother-of-pearl (part material)
- Measurements
- overall: 36 1/4 in x 11 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 92.075 cm x 29.21 cm x 6.985 cm
- ID Number
- 1999.0296.01
- serial number
- 18151
- accession number
- 1999.0296
- catalog number
- 1999.0296.01
- Credit Line
- Gift of James P. and Vada M. Hogan
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Banjos
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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