Thus so easily is the human race corrupted. Could we present you with a Pete Seeger model?” “Oh, I have an old Tubaphone with a homemade neck.” “By the way, which model of out banjos do you yourself play?” asked Vega.
I did some rapid arithmetic and began to wonder if I shouldn’t have asked for a royalty. “We thought you’d be interested to know that we’ve sold over three hundred of the Pete Seeger models.” (After all, how many such requests could there be, at $295. “Would you like us to pay a royalty on each one sold?” Vega asked, “Could we officially call it ‘the Pete Seeger Model’?”
About four or five years ago the Vega banjo company of Boston called me to say they’d received several requests to make banjos with especially long necks (an idea I got in 1942 when trying to play “Viva La Qunice Brigada” in the C minor position, which was a bit too high to sing). As Seeger explains in his book, “The Incompleat Folksinger”: The Vega Pete Seeger model 5-string banjo came into being during the 1950s as a result of requests that the Vega Company received for an extended-neck banjo like the one Pete Seeger played. The Vega Pete Seeger, Part 1 Posted by Pete Curry on, 10:51 pm Walter and I did exchange some e-mail over the past year, however, and his input is noted in what follows. But as you know, Walter is no longer with us. Walter Scott and I had planned to work on this book together. The following information was assembled by me in preparation for a book about the Vega Pete Seeger - an instrument that has been virtually ignored by banjo historians.
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