It is doubtful that his current OME banjo business has archives of the old Muse serial numbers, but you can phone his workshop and talk to his daughter Tanya who works the front desk. Historically, Chuck Ogsbury`s 1960-1966 era Ode banjo enterprise was a mail-order business, and his Muse instruments were for retail purposes. Micky- Thanks for your narrative about the Muse long neck and the kind comments about my website. A 2SR Ode banjo from that era has a loud bright and brassy sound and might fetch up to the $800 to $1000 range depending on condition, but the pre-Gretsch banjos are a little more valuable. The `2SR` means that it is a style 2 banjo with aluminum rim bearing a (S) standard neck length and an (R) archtop pot. My own 2SR banjo made in 1972 has `Baldwin-Ode` on the peghead. In 1970, Baldwin moved from Colorado to Arkansas, and Gretsch took over manufacturing Baldwin-Ode banjos, and soon the Baldwin pre-fix was dropped back to just `Ode`. Baldwin bought Ode in 1966, and the name `Ode` was not used for 5 years per sales contract. The other digits represent the lot number and instrument number, although it is not clear which # is which. A brief history: It is generally believed that the center two digits of the serial number indicate the year of manufacture, which is 1978 in your case. Adam- Thanks for providing the serial number of the instrument.
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