During the early years of the 20th century there were up to 100 banjo manufacturers in Britain, ranging from individual craftsmen to factories employing scores of workers. One of the biggest was ...

Greg Adams, Assistant Archivist at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, is a banjo scholar and enthusiast. Smithsonian Music connected with him to ask him about the history of ...

It has a sales price guide of £20,000-£40,000. Mark Wiltshire, an expert from Christie’s, said the banjo was a piece of The Beatles origin story and was played by both Davis and Lennon in The ...