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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 8169357, member: 55"]AJ seems to have tracked down the company, though not a name I'm familiar with; 80's seems about right.</p><p>The metal strip would be for a 5th string capo - a device to change the pitch of the short 5th string without having to retune it. There would have been a metal clip to slide along it, now apparently missing but perhaps replaceable. The Stewart-Macdonald Co. is a good source for banjo parts (<a href="https://www.stewmac.com/parts-and-hardware/all-hardware-and-parts-by-instrument/banjo-parts/?msclkid=1a1f9cb3b74c1caba1a0ff593f0671f3&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CP%20%7C%20MF%20%7C%20BNG%20%7C%20TXT%20%7C%20NBR%20%7C%20Non-Brand%20DSA%20Index&utm_term=hardware%20and%20parts%20&utm_content=Lulthier%20Tools" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.stewmac.com/parts-and-hardware/all-hardware-and-parts-by-instrument/banjo-parts/?msclkid=1a1f9cb3b74c1caba1a0ff593f0671f3&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CP%20%7C%20MF%20%7C%20BNG%20%7C%20TXT%20%7C%20NBR%20%7C%20Non-Brand%20DSA%20Index&utm_term=hardware%20and%20parts%20&utm_content=Lulthier%20Tools" rel="nofollow">Banjo Parts - StewMac</a>) but I don't recall seeing that particular thing.</p><p> The boxy tuners are likely a type of geared tuner; banjo tuners tend to look different than most common guitar tuners.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 8169357, member: 55"]AJ seems to have tracked down the company, though not a name I'm familiar with; 80's seems about right. The metal strip would be for a 5th string capo - a device to change the pitch of the short 5th string without having to retune it. There would have been a metal clip to slide along it, now apparently missing but perhaps replaceable. The Stewart-Macdonald Co. is a good source for banjo parts ([URL='https://www.stewmac.com/parts-and-hardware/all-hardware-and-parts-by-instrument/banjo-parts/?msclkid=1a1f9cb3b74c1caba1a0ff593f0671f3&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CP%20%7C%20MF%20%7C%20BNG%20%7C%20TXT%20%7C%20NBR%20%7C%20Non-Brand%20DSA%20Index&utm_term=hardware%20and%20parts%20&utm_content=Lulthier%20Tools']Banjo Parts - StewMac[/URL]) but I don't recall seeing that particular thing. The boxy tuners are likely a type of geared tuner; banjo tuners tend to look different than most common guitar tuners.[/QUOTE]
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