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Rare banjo, owned by a "World Renowned" Banjoist, and Guitarist
Neil LeVang's
Wm.Lange
Super Paramount
"Artist's Professional"
Ser#127
Please note that the Super Paramount comes with a custom Anvil Airline Case. The cost of that case was $800.00.
What you are seeing, is a professionally
played instrument, looking exactly as it should.
The normal wear and tear associated
with this type of playing regimen is plenty of buckle rash, fret wear,
finish wear, etc.
It comes with the territory,
when you are owned by a Pro.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neil LeVang (born January 3, 1932) is an American born musician who is best known from television's The Lawrence Welk Show
His instruments are the guitar and the banjo.
Born in Adams, North Dakota, a farmer's son of Swedish descent, he got his start playing the banjo and soon added guitar and violin. He began playing county fairs, performing with several different bands by the time he was fifteen as well as being a morning disc jockey for a Seattle radio station.
Neil joined the United States Coast Guard in 1951. He married Marian in 1954 and had five children, Coral, Mark, Sonja, Erika and Tanya. In 1959, he was hired as a temporary guitar and banjo player on the Welk Show when Buddy Merrill left to serve in the US Army.
Welk was so pleased with his ability, that he was hired on a permanent basis when Buddy completed his tour of duty in 1961. From then until 1974 when Buddy left the show, Neil played many terrific duet arrangements with Buddy and stayed with the Welk Band until its final show in 1982. That same year, at the Country Music Awards he was nominated for best artist on a Specialty Instrument, the mandolin. He was also an accomplished studio musician, playing on several records for artists such as Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Neil Diamond and Noel Boggs.
PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED BY FANS
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Here Neil is shown on the Vegavox I/III, this is what I remember him playing.
It was given to him by Eddie Peabody, but it was stolen, in 1977, from a Welk show equipment trunk.
And here Neil is show with Eddie Peabody, and Buddy Merrill, the
other guitarist from the LW show
Neil on the Super Paramount
Here is a current picture of Neil, with the banjo, taken on 3-18-07
This banjo also comes with a
signed letter of Documentation from Neil, to complete the banjo's history.
This document will be made available
for inspection, to seriously interested parties.
I choose not to post it, because of scammers and thieves!