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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 80555, member: 55"]I agree, probably intended to look Romany, rather than actually being romany.</p><p>The instruments are a 6-string banjo-guitar or guitar-banjo, and an 8-string mandolin-banjo or banjo-mandolin. Both look likely to be of English manufacture; the slotted headpiece on a banjo-guitar is common on old English instruments. The mandolin-banjo construction, with a drum-head inside a resonating chamber, and the neck attached to the resonator, rather than being attached to the drum as in a normal banjo, is very distinctly English.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 80555, member: 55"]I agree, probably intended to look Romany, rather than actually being romany. The instruments are a 6-string banjo-guitar or guitar-banjo, and an 8-string mandolin-banjo or banjo-mandolin. Both look likely to be of English manufacture; the slotted headpiece on a banjo-guitar is common on old English instruments. The mandolin-banjo construction, with a drum-head inside a resonating chamber, and the neck attached to the resonator, rather than being attached to the drum as in a normal banjo, is very distinctly English.[/QUOTE]
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