GIBSON RB – 1 BANJO

SERIAL NUMBER: REMOVED
LABEL DETAILS: THE GIBSON, GIBSON INC, KALAMAZOO MICH.
DATE: CIRCA 1937

Before TV, almost everyone played a musical instrument at home: pianos were big business but they
weren`t portable…. and your parents played those, so [just like today] the kids wanted their own
instruments – portable, loud and funky! They wanted to play the new-fangled happy Jazz that the
“coloured folk” were playing; it was more fun and exciting! Drinking was prohibited around this era,
so this was an alternative form of fun too! There was new music on the radio, and they wanted it,
and they wanted to play it themselves!

This example of a circa 1937 Flathead has been refinished, but still looks really neat with its
Fleur-De-Lis inlays on a beautiful rosewood fret board. The straight banjo tuners ooze old school
coolness.

Refinished but lovely flathead RB – 1,
5 string,
Fleur-de-lis inlay,
Rosewood fret board,
Rosewood Bridge.
$6900