Description

Paramount Style F tenor banjo in fantastic condition.
Neck is dead straight, Frets and fingerboard are in great shape.
Comes fully set up including New Remo Smooth white head, 5/8ths bridge and a set of Clareen phosphorus strings , with action set low at 0.070
Plays and sounds extremely well.

Top of the line Paramount Style F 19 fret tenor banjo, the original highest grade model in William Lange’s professional banjo line. The Style F was originally Paramount’s fanciest and most attractive instrument, and also embodied Lange’s theory that rosewood was the “positively the finest material for tone”. The neck, rim and resonator of this banjo are all made of Indian rosewood which, William Lange preferred to the Brazilian variety. The resonator back is not laminated-it is made of two substantial solid slabs of bookmatched rosewood!

The Style F sold originally for $350 — at the time a Ford model T automobile cost $260 — and thus was affordable only to the most serious professional users. Every surface is richly decorated with elaborate coloured wood marquetry and laminated underlay, with the dark natural finished rosewood setting off the chain pattern wood edging, wood binding, and brightly coloured marquetry inlay. All metal parts are “quadruple” gold plated and elaborately hand engraved. The multi-laminate rosewood neck with coloured wood centre strips has a fully carved heel, carved peghead back and multi-layered wood marquetry trim and binding. The headstock face and fingerboard have extremely fancy engraved pearl inlay.

This banjo features the preferred ‘indestructible’ Page tuners with genuine pearl buttons all working perfectly and holding tune.

Located in Clontarf