Since that posting, it’s received a calfskin head and the four position marker dots were stained black to match the ebony fingerboard. We previously posted this Lyon & Healy 5 String Banjo as a Fairbanks or Stewart model here, but since then further research has updated its origin. I fully expect it to be making lovely music for another century or two. Strung as it was meant to be with gut strings, this Lyon & Healy 5 String Banjo has a warm and charming sound.
Originally strung with gut strings, it is currently strung with nylon classical guitar strings.
LYON HEALY MANDOLIN STYLE C SERIAL
1919, made in Chicago, serial 925, natural top, dark stained back and sides finish, maple back and sides, spruce top mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard, original black hard shell case. The Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard appears original but has been stripped of the original finish and been resprayed in tinted lacquer by a skilled luthier. Lyon & Healy Style B Model Carved Top Mandolin, c. The Classical Flattop mandolins are remarkably good sounding for a flat top mandolin. Like the original, they do not have the big woofy bass that is so characteristic of Gibson style oval hole mandolins. The spun-over rim on this Lyon & Healy 5 String Banjo is original and fitted with a very clean calfskin head. They do sound close to my original 1918 Lyon and Healy, but are louder, more lively and ring and sustain more. Manufacturing ceased during the Depression.īack in the day when banjo makers boasted that they had more tension hooks than the competition, this Buckbee style rim was fitted with 38 hooks and frankly, it is hard to imagine how they could have fitted even one more ! Later in the 1920s the banjo industry more or less agreed that 24 tension-hooks or bracket-hooks was a sufficient number for the job. Lyon and Healy also launched the Washburn brand, using George Lyon’s middle name. View sold price and similar items: American Mandolin, Lyon & Healy, 1926, Washburn Style A, labeled 1926, 8 14, MADE AND GUARANTEED BY, LYON & HEALY, WORLDS LARGEST MUSIC HOUSE, CHICAGO USA, WASHBURN NO 2255 STYLE A, the walnut back and sides, the spruce top of fine grain, the from Skinner on Invalid date EDT. However, by 1880, Lyon and Healy broke away from Ditson there weren’t enough instruments available from the East (including from C F Martin) and so they set up manufacturing on their own. If the label says Style C then somebody goofed. Whats really curious is that its not a Style C.
LYON HEALY MANDOLIN STYLE C SERIAL NUMBER
It was made before 1923, probably 1918 or 1919 with a low serial number like that, although its hard to tell much of anything from L&H serial numbers. The Lyon & Healy firm grew out of an effort by Oliver Ditson – beginning in 1864 – to expand his wholesale musical instrument business into the US Midwest, with a facility in Chicago run by George Washburn Lyon and Patrick J. Re: Info on Lyon & Healy Style C mandolin. Though there is no stamping on the dowel stick or label, it has the signature L&H shaped peghead and the lovely L&H Patent tailpiece which confirms the origin. Here is a lovely example of a turn of the century Lyon & Healy 5 String banjo, built circa 1895.
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