My wife and I went on Veterans Day to visit the Alamo and came across this horrific site. Like so many relics and artifacts, this beauty is encased, surrounded if you will, like those brave men and women under Col. Travis. It was heartbreaking.
This is one of the Deering Texas Banjos. Deering made a “limited” run of 151 Texas sesquicentennial banjos, sporting 24K gold plating. Can you imaging how heavy it would be if even the tension hoop was solid gold? Probably about as heavy as a few cannon balls. I wonder if anyone has ever played one of these? Which makes me wonder… would I play this banjo if I owned it? It sells for a cool $21,000 (2023) What do you think?
