Hi all,
I've found some informations about them but...
Is someone ever seen this badge ? thanks
Could be Alvin Keech, who is credited with developing the Banjo-Uke, sometimes called the Banjolele, etc. Eric Little was prominent in the early days with Premier, and appears in catalogs in the 20's and 30's. I am assuming some marketing of Keech banjolele's perhaps by Little and not within Premier.
The early part of the 20th century saw a lot of banjo action among what are now drum manufacturers. An acquaintance has a few old Ludwig banjos that were heavy with gilt and decoration. The banjo uke used the same skin head as a banjo, the proportions of a uke and number of strings as a uke. With the head and sometimes a resonator shell, they can be pretty loud. (Guy I work with uses both a uke and as he calls it "a banjo uke"--in our gigs, the uke needs amplification, the banjo-uke doesn't need amplification.)
Attached is a pic of Rudy Valee who had a hit with My Time is Your Time (lyrics Eric Little). The cataloguing record for the song:
http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/27356
gives it a copyright date of 1924, with accompaniment including:
"ukulele banjulele banjo"
Am I close?
Thank you Patrick ! You found the same information as me ... The Keech brothers, inventors of banjolele... 2 Americans who lived in Paris and London in the 20's & 30's ... They are very famous in the world of ukulele and the banjolele, and they have produced and sold some intruments ... but no percussion !! But this badge is on a Chinese tom tom circa 20/30s ... so I'm looking for information, because it seems to be a rarity...
Some pics of this nice Chinese tom tom... with a bird and a dragon painted
Such Love is probably a distant relative of Quest Love. That trap tom could be what he played on. It kinda looks like a parade drum with those hoops.
You have a lot of furniture tacks the Grestch guys are looking for.
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