C.W. Stoneking

"This is a very old (I think 1905) English made banjo from Birmingham, I bought this banjo back in 1993 from Balmain Market in Sydney, wrote all my banjo songs on it and used it on the King Hokum and Jungle Blues albums, unfortunately it was lost along with my Dobro in that famous NYC taxi cab shortly after the Jungle Blues album was recorded." - Source.

On Stoneking's website, he says this of his Windsor Artiste Model: "This is the banjo I use when I’m in UK/Europe, it’s a beautiful old English banjo, actually a 5 string though I use it as a tenor. I went on a banjo buying binge in England and have two of these from different years as well as a ‘Lady’s Model’ which I intend to have a tenor neck built for to replicate my beloved old Windsor tenor banjo that was lost in NYC."

"This is an American made Tenor Banjo from 1920s, has a larger than usual head on it about 12 inch diameter, and features my very first attempt at putting a skin on a banjo – did a good job, but accidently put the rough side out, don’t think it affects the sound, just gets dirty quicker. I bought this Banjo in 2008 to replace my lost Windsor banjo," Stoneking says, on his website.