Epiphone Mayfair 5-String Banjo 2016

Epiphone Mayfair 5-String Banjo, Red Mahogany finish, serial number 1607120472.

This is Epiphone’s reissue of the historic Mayfair 5-string banjo, a classic model from the “House of Stathopoulo” of the 1930s. The original Mayfair was produced from 1928 to 1935, and was a lower-tier but well-made instrument in Epiphone’s professional line of the era. The original featured a multi-ply resonator with walnut veneer, concentric rings and floral design on the resonator, 11-inch head diameter, 3-ply American walnut neck, ebony fingerboard with genuine mother-of-pearl dot inlays, pearloid pyralin headstock veneer, and nickel-plated hardware including banjo tension tuners with white buttons.

The modern Mayfair reissue is built in China and replicates the historic design with a mahogany resonator featuring the traditional Mayfair inlay, mahogany neck with a “C” profile, and a Remo white head. It has a 26 3/8-inch scale length (670 mm), 22 medium frets, 1.25-inch nut width, rosewood fingerboard with Pearloid Falling Snowflake inlays, traditional clamshell tailpiece, hard maple bridge with ebony cap, and nickel-plated hardware with traditional banjo tuners. The finish is high-gloss Red Mahogany with 1-ply cream binding, and the instrument is designed for bluegrass playing with bold tone and warm projection from the resonator construction. Chip board case