an old photo of a woman with a large instrument in her hand and the caption reads, mr s carpph
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It's Not Just A Banjo - It's A Really BIG Banjo

Another odd bit of musical obscurity...I've been using this pic for a background for a while: not really knowing what that large, strange stringed musical instument was. But thanks to valuable info submitted to us by Outaspaceman, I can tell you that it's a bass banjo, and that there used to be groups like Raymond and His Famous Banjo Band, a seven-banjo (!) British combo featured in this video of a 1937 performance: HERE's another video of the group that, to my surprise, did not play…

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