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Vega
Year:
1960
Brackets 24/28:
28
Dowel/Rods:
Dowel
Original Owner Yes/No: Yes
Where purchased:
Manny's, NYC
Cost:
Can't remember, but I think $175.00
Other Comments:
Vintage (20's ) pot with marquetry rim,
but still the original pot that came with
the banjo. Square fret markers. Scruggs pegs.
Picture:
In the Banjo Registry
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Brand:
Vega
Year:
1963
Brackets 24/28:
24
Dowel/Rods:
Rods
Original Owner Yes/No: No
Where purchased:
Gryphon Strings, Palo Alto, CA
Cost:
$2250 (bought in Spring 2003)
Other Comments:
Not mint, but in really great condition;
rr spikes at 10th and 12th fret - I don't
like the 5th
string sliding capo.
Picture:
Not yet in the Banjo Registry
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Brand:
Vega
Year:
1963
Serial Number A-102761
Brackets 24/28:
24
Dowel/Rods:
Rods
Original Owner Yes/No: No
Where purchased:
Connecticut Music, Stamford, CT
Cost:
$1200.00
Other Comments:
New planetary tuners and geared fifth
peg installed. Still
have originals. One fifth string peg.
Picture:
www.folkusa.org/Vega.html
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Brand:
Vega/Fawley conversion
Year:
1959(pro Tenor)
Serial #:
99351
Dowel/Rods:
Dowel
Original Owner:
No
Where Purchased:
Bernunzio Inst.
Cost:
$650.00 + $750.00 for conversion/case
Other comments:
New 5 Star pegs and sliding 5th string capo.
Still have original 4 string neck w/dowel.
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Brand:
Vega
Year:
196? (yellow label w/serial # missing)
Brackets 24/28:
28
Dowel/Rods:
Rods
Original Owner Yes/No: No
Where purchased:
n/a
Cost:
$0.00 GIVEN to me by an old high school trio buddy
Other Comments:
Looks to be the same model as hanging on the wall
on the "String
Along" cover...Pat. Pending Grover side tuners
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Brand:
Fawley/Vega
Year:
1929/30 Pot
Brackets 24/28:
28
Dowel/Rods:
Dowel
Original Owner Yes/No: Yes
Where purchased:
Wyatt Fawley
Other Comments:
Spiked, Grover Side tuners, Kirschner tailpiece,
Grover ,Plastic insert 1/2" bridge.
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Brand:
Deering/Vega
Year:
1998
Brackets 24/28:
24
Dowel/Rods:
Rods
Original Owner Yes/No: Yes
Where purchased:
House of Strings, San Diego
Other Comments:
Schubb sliding capo, Soseebee 516 bridge,
Grover side tuners, Kirshner tailpiece.
Picture:
In the Photo Gallery
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Brand:
Vega Folklore Long Neck ( OK, it's not a PS)
Year:
1967
Brackets 24/28:
24
Dowel/Rods:
Rods
Original Owner Yes/No: Yes
Where purchased:
Manny's, NYC
Other Comments:
Grover Side tuners, Schubb capo.
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Brand:
Deering Vega
Year:
1993
Brackets 24/28:
24
Dowel/Rods:
Rods
Original Owner Yes/No: Yes
Where purchased:
Mandolin Brothers, S.I. NY
Cost:
About $1850 (incl. HS case)
Other Comments:
Original Martin Vega tone ring. Bracket screws
trough the rim. Grover tuners.
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Brand:
Fawley Vega
Year:
2001
Brackets 24/28:
28
Dowel/Rods:
Dowel
Original Owner Yes/No: Yes
Where purchased:
Wyatt Fawley
Cost:
$2200 (incl. HS case)
Other Comments:
Vintage ca.1939 pot. Bracket shoe band
(not drilled through). Vega name and star
inlay in peg head. Scruggs tuners. Nut and
5th string nut made of bone.
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Brand:
Martin/Vega
Date Purchased:
1974
Place Purchased:
McCabe's
Original Owner:
Yes
Cost:
$475 + $20 used case
Brackets:
24
Dowels/Rods:
Dowels
Serial #:
1170
Additional Comments: Vega Name And Star
Abalone inlay on head stock,
Martin decals (1) on back of head stock (2) on
inside of pot. Tubaphone tone ring. And this banjo
has been played by Bobby Haworth. Stan Orlow
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Brand:
Deering/Vega
Year:
1999
Brackets:
24
Coordinator Rods
Original Owner:
Yes
Where Purchased:
Mass Street Music-Lawrence, Ks.
Cost:
$2300.00 (if I remember right)
Other Comments:
ordered with Rotomatics, just replaced the head
with a Weatherking, has 3 spikes and a cheesy
red elastic capo.
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Brand:
Vega
Year:
1966 serial # A-127529
Brackets 24/28:
24
Dowel/Rods:
Rods
Original Owner Yes/No: No
Where purchased:
Music Emporium, Lexington MA
Cost:
$2500 in 2003
Other Comments:
railroad spike at 12th fret. Has the name
David Lipson lightly scratched into the
tonering (I don't know
him).
Personal Info:
at 26 years of age, I am probably one of the
youngest owners of an original vega pete seeger.
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Brand
Vega
Year
1962
Brackets
24
Dowel/rods
Rods
Original owner -
yes
Purchase
at Manny's NYC
Cost
about $300.00
Serial#
A-102099
Special:
Added Grover tuners due to the poor tuners
installed by the factory that went out of tuner
way too often.
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