We vigorously test everything we take in to ensure authenticity, functionality, and reliability. Our passion bridges the products we love with the real relationships we develop with our customer - whether they are a lifelong musician, or they are just getting started on their musical journey but care about value, quality, and being treated right. Our best customers are the ones that truly understand our personal touch and commitment to everything we sell, and range from hobbyists and enthusiasts to some of the biggest names in the business. Because of this, we have developed a reputation of quality and trust with our customers, located all over the world. We buy, trade, and consign instruments that we truly believe in. We are a small team of dedicated experts, located in Durham, NC. Our used selection always reflects the high standards of quality and craftsmanship that we expect from all of our manufacturers.
Here at Sound Pure we hand-select used and vintage pieces of gear for our inventory. If it has abalone it was made after his passing. So if you find a Hartford with a white mother of pearl name plate it was built before he passed away. When John Hartford passed away we changed the nameplate on the fingerboard from mother of pearl to abalone in the fingerboard. We accomplished a really classic design for John and Chuck was able to have a wonderful time working with John on the inlay. It ended up having a very riverboat type of flavor because it uses that architecture and that art form without having to have pictures of riverboats on it. So Chuck took the riverboat architecture and used that classic form to develop inlays for the Hartford banjo. The ratio of the length to width and the style of the scrolls that go into the riverboat architecture are different than what is on a gingerbread house, a Victorian period house. People think that the gingerbread on a riverboat is the same as on the house but it is actually distinctly and identifiably different. He discovered that there is a whole classic architecture of riverboats that's significantly different than the architecture that goes into houses. He went to the library and found all the books he could about riverboats. The idea that he would someday be making a banjo for John Hartford was beyond his wildest dreams so I gave the job of designing the inlays to Chuck.Ĭhuck started studying riverboats and reading a lot. Chuck grew up in Minnesota and when John Hartford would come to town to play he would never miss a concert and he thought John Hartford was the coolest musician. Then we had a really neat opportunity because when Chuck, our head craftsman and artist who has been with us over 30 years now, was growing up and learning to play music his main banjo hero was John Hartford. And again, we were kind of stumped a little bit, not wanting to just put inlays of riverboats in the fingerboard. John was a licensed river boat captain and wanted us to put some sort of a riverboat theme into his banjo. Some of the old banjos like the Farland, and some of those old banjos made before 1900 had this, so John asked us to do that. It was once the standard pattern and fairly common to just have the inlays grouped right in the middle and out on the ends of the fingerboard. $1295 SOLD Bart Reiter Buckbee Fretless ––– Same appointments as above, but with a fretless neck, w/ HSC $1195 SOLD Bart Reiter Round Peak ––– 12" pot, scooped mahogany neck, rolled brass tone hoop, new w/HSC.People ask why we have a non standard inlay pattern on this banjo. with gig bag case, used $299 Bart Reiter Buckbee ––– Scooped mahogany neck, Buckbee style headstock, 11" pot, rolled brass tone hoop. $895 Gold Tone Travel Banjo ––– Short neck Banjo for travel.
Beautiful engraving on pot, built in New York. A great sounding old timey banjo for a reasonable price. w/HSC $1375 SOL Saga S.S.10 ––– A traditional looking S.S. S.S.Stewart American Princess circa 1895, 10” x 24 1/2”, nice and clean, good example, A scale, $995ĭobson Silver Bell circa 1885, 9” x 22”, cute as can be, $995 Eastman Whyte Laydie ––– 1903 replica 5/8" pot, 26" scale. Vega-Fairbanks Tub-a-phone #3, circa 1913, probably a custom order, with maple neck and heel carving delete, to match a Whyte Laydie #2, flower pot inlaid peghead, prewar planet tuners, original bump hard case, $4000 Washburn, circa 1895-1900, 10 1/2” x 26", with engraved sea snail pearl inlay, beautiful and original, $1150
USED DEERING BANJOS SALE PROFESSIONAL
W.A.Cole Eclipse Professional,circa 1895, a very classy banjo with great tone and playability in excellent original condition, $1995īacon FF Professional #280, F.J.Bacon, Hartford CT, circa 1908 maple neck, rim, and internal resonator, spun brass tone ring, engraved pearl inlay, metal parts gold plated, planet tuners, $3500 2, used in perfect condition, with deluxe hardshell case, $3195 Vega Senator by Deering ––– Open back six string guitar-banjo.
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