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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 4302025, member: 55&quot;]Yes, as 2manybooks says; I&#039;d usually call it a mandolin-banjo, but any of the terms mentioned would work as search terms.</p><p>It is hard to say from just one picture, but it looks like it might need some work to be playable, at least a new bridge, maybe more, maybe much more.</p><p>Again, hard to say without more pictures, but the way it is put together would suggest it is not US made, but very possibly made in England or Europe.</p><p>US style: main body would be very much like a drum, with the skin head attached to a wood or metal rim; the neck is attached directly to that drum.</p><p>English style: neck is attached to an empty wooden &quot;bowl;&quot; the drum assembly &quot;floats&quot; inside that bowl, and the neck is not attached directly to the drum.</p><p>(I believe Clavero is a name found on European-made instruments, from around 1920 or so, but don&#039;t know much about the company, and the name does not necessarily reflect a particular maker, but perhaps a dealer or seller&#039;s name; much like in the US &quot;Silvertone&quot; was a name used on instruments sold by Sears Roebuck, but made by a number of different companies).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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