Prucha 19 Fret Custom 'Fall in Love' Tenor Banjo with Hard Case - Commission sale **SOLD**

Prucha 19 Fret Custom Fall in Love build specifications

Neck:

• Premium Walnut 
• Natural ebony fingerboard
• Bone nut
• 19 highly polished nickel frets
• Abalone 'Fall in Love' Inlays
• Tortoise binding
• side dot markers
• Fully adjustable truss rod
• Planetary geared precision tuners
• 'Fall in Love'  inlayed in Mabalone on 19th fret
• Hand polished  gloss finish

Pot:

• 3 ply solid maple rim
• Prucha flathead cast bronze tone ring
• Prucha gold plated notched tension hoop
• 11”  Remo black gloss head
• 24 round hooks and ¼” hex nuts
• Prucha 1-piece flange
• Gold plated armrest
• 11/16" maple bridge with ebony top
• Pruch black nickel 2 hump clamshell style tailpiece
• Black nickel plated hardware

Resonator:

• Premium walnut
• Tortoise binding
• Straight inside resonator sidewalls
• Gloss finish 

Dimensions:

• Neck width at the nut 1 1/4”  (31.75mm)
• Scale length nut to bridge 23” (584.2mm)
• Resonator diameter 13 7/8” (352.42mm)
• Overall instrument length 38” (965.2mm)
• Weight Approx. 11lb 7 oz (5.12Kg)

Individual Prucha Serial Number: Yes

Tuning: Irish (GDAE), Jazz (CGDA) or Chicago (DGBE)

Finish: Hand finished - Gloss

Case/Gig Bag: Kinsman Hard Case

More information about Prucha

Welcome to Prucha Bluegrass instruments, the premier manufacturer of banjos and mandolins in the Czech Republic. Their instruments are of finest quality and are being played by some of the most prominent bluegrass musicians around the World today. Each instrument is handmade to meet the highest standard of perfection using only the best materials available.

Behind the creation of PRUCHA BLUEGRASS INSTRUMENTS is Jaroslav Prucha. His obsession with bluegrass music began when he was still a small child on a boy scout camping trip in the woods. At the time, the Czechoslovakian government had banned all country and bluegrass music which was believed to be a symbol of Western culture that dealt with such dangerous topics as freedom, love and patriotism. It was seen as a type of subversive force which might have the power to bring people together. The five string banjo was the driving force of that music and was new and exotic to Czechoslovakians. Jaroslav heard banjo the first time on this camping trip. A band of traveling musicians joined the boy scouts around the fire where one of them played his four-string tenor banjo. Those first sounds instantly found a home in Jaroslav‘s heart and his life was changed forever.He felt driven to learn to play, but there were no banjos to be found in Czechoslovakia in those days.

Instead og giving up, Jaroslav decided to make one for himself. So in 1974, with no blueprints, no experience, and only a few photographe to help, his first five-string banjo was completed. Later, Jaroslav attended a concert of the "revolutionary" Czech bluegrass band The Greenhorns. There he saw another incredible sight - fingerpicks - which were also inaccessible! When he arrived home, he took an old tin can and cut the shape of the fingepicks out. They seemed perfect in every way. After his first banjo was sold, his enthusiasm was so high thad he decided to make another, trying for a better look and sound. Thirty years later, he can see the culmination of his life's work in every instrument that leaves his workshop. He bought back that first banjo and still has it to remind him of how the story all began.