This banjo is also adjustable. By loosening or tightening the outside and inside nut on the truss board, the player can adjust the position of the strings and keep the banjo neck straight.

The Deering Banjo Co. uses DesignCAD software from to create inlays for the banjos’ fingerboards and necks.

As designed by Hoke, the pots and necks make up an 18-foot-high band shell arched above the Sir Walter statue. By Sunday evening, it was starting to take shape. The banjo necks fanned out from ...