Teed Six-String Banjo
date: label: date made
content: 1862
name: label: maker
content: Teed, George
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This banjo was made by George Teed of New York, New York around 1862. It is a Six-String Banjo, with 17 frets, 8 brackets with a brass hoop, and resonator made from rosewood veneer with inlaid design. The brass hoop is etched:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>George Teed<br>[ ] 8th 1862</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This banjo features U. S. Patent #34913 dated April 8, 1862, by George Teed for an improvement in banjos.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Teed is listed in the New York City directory from 1860-1861 as a turner with a home address of 497 E. Houston. Like many craftsmen in the woodworking trades, Teed may have made banjos as a secondary business.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This early commercial banjo has top-tensioning screws to adjust the tightness of the head and a closed back resonator body designed to project the sound outwards towards the audience. Like similar mid-century banjos patented by Henry Dobson, it may have been actually made by the Buckbee company of New York.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Banjos
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: GIft of Roger D. Abrahams
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.68.06
label: catalog number
content: 68.06
label: accession number
content: 275703
objectType: label: Object Name
content: banjo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: animal skin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 1/4 in x 11 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 89.535 cm x 29.845 cm x 6.35 cm