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"... the Luscomb banjo, named after John F. Luscomb, a highly regarded banjo soloist and composer who over the next decade designed several models. His first, patented in the late summer of 1888 but advertised by Thompson and Odell half a year earlier, offered a rim composed of two metal bands (inside and outside) with a third, of wood, sandwiched between them with its lip extending upward so that the skin head was stretched over it."

- Philip F. Gura & James F. Bollman
America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
(University of North Carolina Press, 1999)

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"The Luscomb Banjo Patented Aug. 29, 1888." Thompson & Odell published sheet music and sold musical instruments in Boston, Massachusetts. Charles W. Thompson and Ira H. Odell formed the business in 1874, and they operated a shop on Tremont Street; later moved to 523 Washington Street. The company was bought by Vega in 1905.