Earl Scruggs

I wish my wife was in here.

She could tell you better than me, but it lasted 20—

For a lot of years, and we went into television.

Television came in in about 1955, so we started transcribing the morning show, radio show, and we'd sleep late, but we'd have to do a live television show at a different city each night.

The reason I say a live television, that was before they had

cameras to film you with so we'd have to we'd leave four o'clock Monday morning to go to down in Georgia had two cities in Georgia Atlanta being one and let's see Wednesday was Florence South Carolina and Thursday was Huntington West Virginia and Friday was Jackson Tennessee down West Tennessee and Saturday back at WSM television and do the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday night and for working on Sunday we were

free until four o'clock Monday morning and we started that 2,500 mile tour again.

It is.

As a matter of fact, they're making five different models with my name on it from the plain banjo, which...

They're all basically the same banjo.

What runs up the cost is like gold plating and engraving and things of that nature.

Well, yeah, I play a Gibson banjo.

Well, basically it is.

I'm playing a banjo that I've been playing since back in the late 40s, I guess, early 50s.

But they're still making basically the same banjo they were making way back there.

Same banjo.

Well, the only thing you're going to wear out on the banjo is the head.

The head used to be skin, but now it's plastic.

They will wear out on you.

And the strings outside of that, you can play one for a thousand years unless you got it broken some way.