Historical Banjo Set

Historical Set

Our set, made with real gut strings and silver-plated copper 4th wound string on a core of real white silk, is an exact replica of the set described by S.S. Stewart in “Observations on the Banjo and Banjo Playing” published in 1892:

https://archive.org/details/Observations

Gut diameters, converted to mm, are as follows:
D: .48 mm;
B: .58 mm;
G: .73 mm;
C: .62 mm W (silver-plated copper wound on silk);
G: .48 mm.

Suggested reference pitch: 435 Hz (frequency adopted at the Congress of Vienna in 1885; in 1939, with the Congress of London, it was raised to 440 Hz).

HS Set (synthetic version of the historical set)

The Banjo SH Set is the Nylgut synthetic version of our Historical set. The wound string has a synthetic multifilament core.

String diameters, expressed in mm, are as follows:

D: .48 mm;
B: .58 mm;
G: .73 mm;
C: .62 mm silver-plated copper on synthetic multifilament (Rayon);
G: .48 mm