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Al, I'm surprised you know who Frank Profitt (with 2 t's) is. Knowledge gained from your

sixties folk music period? Frank made banjos with tiny rims and some kind of small circle

of animal hide for the head. He sold them for $60. A few years ago a friend bought a

Profitt-made banjo for something like a thousand dollars.

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Ed, I was afraid that I might be the ONLY one here who knew who Frank Profitt was. You're right about the two T's. One of the Foxfire books had directions for making a fretless mountain banjo. Supposedly to be true to the original 'possum hide was what you used, but house cat hide has good tone also. I made a banjo back in the early 70's, never got very good at playing it, and gave it to my son a dozen or so years ago. I have a Folkways record or two with Frank playing and singing. $60 was a decent week's wages for a lot of folks back then. Frank was hardly giving them away!
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