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Posted by Ian Sanderson
on October 15, 2008, 12:34 pm, in reply to "Re: victor ellis"
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Hi Dominic. Great to hear from you. I'd almost given up hope of getting any response to the various messages I'd sent out over the past year or so.
I'm not sure what information you read in my November 07 contact... but basically I'd been searching for Victor Ellis under the umbrella of "banjo-maker".
I drew a blank in Google... but last May I got this response from a banjo expert in England who'd seen photographs of the instrument:
"Hi Ian,
"It's a good looking banjo! - 19 fret normal scale tenor
"I showed the pictures to a banjo expert and he identifies it as being made by J G Abbott probably in the 20s or 30s or possibly a little earlier and that Victor Ellis was a player/teacher. Abbott was known as one of the 'makers to the trade' and would make banjos to a client's specification so Ellis probably commissioned this or possibly several with his name on to sell to pupils."
There's plenty of stuff about Abbott in Google... but nothing more on Victor Ellis.
I can fill you in with other bits and bobs, but if you let me know your Email address I can send you some shots of the banjo which, incidentally, I've always played with plectrum tuning, as opposed to a tenor.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers
Ian
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