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Here we have a ‘Texan Series’ tenor banjo by the famous German Framus company built around the 1970’s. Framus was a German luthier who produced many kinds of instruments between the 1950’s through to the 80’s. Framus was well known for his amazing innovations in guitar and banjo building and created many different models, like the Texan, Nashville, Solist and the Old Time Gold among others.

This is the popular Texan 19 fret tenor banjo which has been played throughout the Irish Trad scene since as far back as I can remember. It has been kept in excellent condition and plays and sounds as good as it looks. The action is low with good frets and arrow straight neck and the truss-rod is fully working. Framus’s innovative string height adjustment mechanism is present at the end of the perch-pole which easily lets you adjust string action using a Alan key. Rosewood neck with simple dot inlays, broad frets and standard guitar style side mounted tuners, all holding tuning well. All original ‘wedding cake’ flange and armrest and original tilt tail piece. Fitted with bronze phospher strings and ebony/maple bridge. Comes with black hard shell case with black fur lining.

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A beautiful pristine and rare ‘Old Time Gold’ tenor banjo by the famous German Framus company built around 1972. Framus was a German luthier who produced many kinds of instruments between the 1950’s through to the 80’s. Framus was well known for his amazing innovations in guitar and banjo building and created many different models, like the Texan, Nashville, Solist and the ‘Old Time Gold’ series as we have here.

This 19 fret banjo is in excellent condition, as you can see in the pictures. The Gold plating is super shiny and the resonator and neck have excellent lacquer finish, it almost looks un-played. The banjo was recently fitted with gold plated 5 star planet tuners from Stewmac adding to the quality of this banjo. The action is low with good frets and arrow straight neck and the trussrod is fully working. Framus’s innovative string height adjustment mechanism is present at the end of the persh-pole which easily lets you adjust string action using a Alan key. The Banjo head is a remo renaissance and sits tight and is in good condition. The Banjo is beautifully resonant, loud and plays very comfortably. All original ‘wedding cake’ flange and armrest and oettinger style tail piece. Fitted with bronze phospher strings and ebony/maple bridge. Comes with brown leatherette hardshell case with blue fur lining in good condition.

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