The American Banjo Museum has thousands of items in archives that include publications, periodicals, photographs, and personal memorabilia. From time to time we will feature items from the archives on this News page.

Today we wanted to share a banjo head that was signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The news article on the left shows Perry Bechtel with his banjo that President Roosevelt signed after Bechtel played for him in Warm Springs, Georgia on November 30, 1933.

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