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Think yourself lucky, Henrik, your kitchen-table concertina project might have turned out as a banjo.

Whoa, now - you just happened to press the right button, there!

 

The first attempt actually did turn out as a banjo:

 

 

 

It is called "The 27", for the simple reason that it took 27 years...

 

After switching to concertinas, production time fell to 10 months :P

 

/Henrik

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Amazing!

 

In fact, I did see a photo of a hexagonal-bodied banjo once. Maybe it was made from a Hohner kit :lol:

 

The trick is to build it as a zither-banjo - with the vellum head not stretched over the body, like on Henrik's, but clamped in a sort of cast-metal embroidery hoop. This assembly is then let into a circular opening in the wood body, so the body itself could theoretically be any shape. In the case of a Hohner kit, hexagonal. Or, for the more high-class concertinist-banjoist, octagonal :P

 

Cheers,

John (who's quite content with hexagonal concertinas and round banjos)

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