Alvarez 4 string banjo full#
Alvarez 4 string banjo pro#

One of the best sounding Tub-a-phones I have heard.Д¬lear, crisp, and bright up and down the neck. Vega profile, except has thumb stop, and working truss rod. Rosewood FB, diamond inlays, black behind ivoroid binding, side dots. Neck: 2 piece mahogany with black stripe. Multi-ply pot with pearloid and ivoroid bindings inside and out. Tone rings rests fully on the rim whereas Vega undercut their Instead of flat head brass as used by Vega. Pot: 28 hooks, shoe brackets on bracket band, with steel fillister head screws This is a copy of a Vega Tub-a-phone open back. Has inlaid name 'Silver Princess' on the headstock, but no mention of AlvarezДЄnywhere. Open back, geared pegs, special tone ring to meet the demands of folk banjo players. Similar, nickel plate, wood inlay on the edge of the back of the resonator. The normally encountered one, sometimes purfling on the upper edge of the resonator, light reddish mahogany finish, non Gibson peghead shape, clunky tuners, bow tie inlay, one or two Some have been reported to have the brass rod ring under the tone ring like the Tokai Blue Bell and Orpheum.

Chrome orДЄlvarez - Early 70's banjos, usually bow tie fingerboard, delicate and unique filigree peghead inlay with die cast flathead tone ring, 3 resonator screws, cast flange with a the holes being an oval with a larger circle in the middle of it, like a current Deering flange but without any points into the hole, They were pretty good value for the money. Current, Korean, Masterclone available through Hobgoblin Music in the UK.

Alvarez 4 string banjo pro#

Pro II was a closer replica of the the later RB250.ДЄshbury STB75-5. (Gibson 71 and later into the 80's has two piece flange, pearloid buttons on offset gear tuners).

A gold plated one was available very early on for under $300.

Aria Pro is early 70 RB 250 replica, with similar inlay, big clunky chrome tuners, one coordinator rod, 3 resonator screws, one piece flange, non brass tone ring, copying the interim Gibson RB 250 version before 71.

Alvarez 4 string banjo full#

Seen on eBay.ДЄria - Full line of banjos from cast aluminum pot entry level to Dot inlay tone ring banjo seen on a site in the UK.ДЄrcher - Korean, flathead, 2 pc flange, maple, looks to be Samick built. Aida (sometimes also read as Jida, but it is actually Iida) - See Iida on the G-K page.ДЄntoria - Samick brand name in the UK at least from August 2002 on.