![]() ![]() This #9 model is similar, but not identical, to early Vegaphone Artist and Deluxe models. The 10 7/8" rim is paired with a long 26 3/4' scale neck, which is identical to the 5-string version except for the upper peg and "hump" required. ![]() ![]() The 4-string Plectrum Tu-Ba-Phone was a custom-order option separate from the new Vegaphone line at the time this was made, so it's entirely possible that someone simply requested this particular combination of features from both. Depending on which Vega serial number charts are used, it dates between 19, though the features match the 1923 catalog specs with the addition of the Vega individual flanges and lovely pie-section resonator. This banjo is labeled Tu-Ba-Phone #9 on the dowel however, it shares features with both the Style X #9 tenor and the "Regular" 5-string #9. It's a spectacular banjo, with heavily engraved shaped pearl inlay in the bound ebony fingerboard, a lovely neck of laminated figured maple, engraved heel and headstock inlays, a crisply executed elaborate carved heel, and the inimitable Fairbanks/Vega Tu-Ba-Phone tone ring. This specific example serves as a bridge between the more recent and older Vega lines of the 1920s. This is an exceptionally interesting and genuinely fantastic Vega Plectrum 4-string, long neck banjo, which really is becoming increasingly rare. Vega Tu-Ba-Phone #9 Model Plectrum Banjo (1926), made in Boston, Mass., shaded maple finish, laminated maple neck and rim, ebony fingerboard, brown hard shell case. ![]()
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