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Kalamazoo, Style 1, 2, 11, Recording King, etc. If you appreciate these fine Gibson-made instruments then come on down.

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From revellfa on 10/5/2013 4:33:23 AM

So having owned about eight Kalamazoo banjos I've mostly seen the following...

16 hooks/nuts

thinner 5/8 inch rim

usually no FON

no flange

4 dot inlays

usually single bound resonator

Although I've also heard of Kalamazoos with pearloid fingerboards, one with "Gull" inlay, one with a one piece flange, and even a pre-war Granada with a Kalamazoo five string neck.

What have you seen?

3 Comments
	revellfa says: 10/5/2013 4:37:11 AM Here is a link of the Kalamazoo Granada vintageinstruments.com/museum/...page.html
	black flag says: 10/5/2013 6:35:00 AM I've had at least three Kalamazoos, two tenors and a 5-string, over the years, all found when I used to spend much more time searching the internet ads and trading than I do now. The 5-string was my first, and I fell in love with the way it sounded like an old record, but the neck was a little bowed and definitely too narrow at the nut for my taste. I kept looking and found a very clean tenor and soon afterward, a tenor with a MOTS fingerboard. I had an RB-00 neck made for the cleaner of the two tenors. I'd post a picture of it if I could only figure out how, but there is one on my homepage.
	revellfa says: 10/6/2013 5:39:57 PM I thought that MOTS was from the factory. Wow, I learned something. Anyway, anybody got a Kalamazoo with original armrest?
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