The object of the exercise was to build banjos and their partnership would last 10 years. In 1880 they joined forces to form the Fairbanks and Cole Company. At some point William met Albert Fairbanks and discovered their common interests. ![]() The banjo was their instrument of choice. He and his brother Frank Cole became interested in music and teaching. ![]() In 1875 he started by building simple inexpensive 5-string banjos and within 5 years he was living in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts with wife Emma and son Curtis and had established himself as a credible luthier. He was a banjo player with a desire to build his own instruments. Albert Conant Fairbanks was born in 1852 in Sterling, Massachusetts.
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