www.deeringbanjos.com
Playing Since: 1975
Experience Level: Expert/Professional

Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Occupation: Banjo Manuafcturer

Gender: Male
Age: 51

My Instruments:
Deering Eagle II, Deering Deluxe, Deering Calico, Deering Golden Wreath, Deering Sierra, Goodtime, Classic Goodtime Special, Dropkick Murphys Tenor

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
The Kingston Trio, Dropkick Murphys, Jens Kruger, Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons, Taylor Swift, Joe Satriani, Tony Trischka, Steve Martin, Terry Baucom, John Hartford, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Bela Fleck, Keith Urban, Zac Brown, David Holt and many more

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Created 12/5/2011
Last Visit 9/10/2025

Greg Deering began learning woodworking from his father at the age of two by watching him build model airplanes. Growing up in San Diego, he received his first tools and tool box which he had carefully laid out in his wagon on his third birthday. Many of these tools he still has today. That is how important this was to him. It was a career in the making. At the age of 12, Greg purchased his first banjo by investing a months pay from his paper route into a used banjo. He learned to play Kingston Trio songs on his banjo with his best friend Tom playing guitar. Greg made his first banjo as an industrial arts major at San Diego State College. In 1970, at 19 years of age he joined other enterprising young college students at the American Dream Co-Op and began doing instrument repairs and building banjos. This co-op would become the birth place of at least four now world renowned instrument manufacturers - a true tribute to the concept of the American dream! The American dream became the theme of Greg’s life when he and Janet started the Deering Banjo Company in 1975 as a family business. Together they not only raised two children but built, piece by piece, the Deering banjo factory. Today, over 35 years later, the Deering Banjo Company has seen many a milestone including the launch of the Goodtime Series in 1985, the relocation to a new 18,000 sq.ft. premises in 1991 and the launch of the Eagle II in 2009, a breakthrough in banjo tone with the development of the new 20/20 tone ring. In its young 35 year life, Deering has delivered the finest hand built American instruments to over 76,318 happy musicians and counting…one banjo at a time.