Banjo Anne-Marie /// - (photos credit: Jean Fitzgerald)

Acoustic fretless banjo-type instrument -2014 -
Andre instruments no.89
 

 

Dimensions: 86 x 26 x 17 cm
Scale length:560mm
Neck width @ nut 30mm
String spacing @ bridge 35mm
Body length total: 24.5 cm
 

 

Materials:

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• Soundboard: Alaska red cedar, with altitude Red spruce bracings

• Back&sides: African calabash, monocoque

• Neck: Douglas fir, with pearwood side markers

• Fretboard: Gabon ebony

• Headstock: Douglas fir

• Bridge: West african ebony

• Tuning machines: CBGitty

• Nut & saddle: light ebony

• Finish: Linseed oil, tung oil, beeswax

 

 

Pickup: K&K pure mini

 

Strings: D'addario ECG24, stainless steel and steel
 
 

 

For Composer Patrick Lavoie, Ste-Ursule, Canada