English: The "murder banjo" at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee, USA. The banjo was owned by an African-American banjo player named Henry Dobson in the latter half of the 19th century. One night around 1895, Dobson was playing along the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when a fight erupted and his closest friend was knifed to death, splattering blood all over the banjo. Dobson refused to play it again, and eventually traded it to Charles Ross Schrecengost for a guitar. Museum founder John Rice Irwin obtained the banjo from Schrecengost's son, Haven (a resident of Grainger County, Tennessee) in 1989. Dobson's name is inscribed on the banjo in two places, with the dates 1878 and 1881.