At the age of 21, Mario De Pietro was a sensation on mandolin in his native country Italy. Moving to Britain after World War I, he became a naturalized British subject and was soon an established music artist. He took up the tenor banjo almost as a joke in the early 1920s, but was soon thereafter composing and recording for this instrument. He also made records as a mandolin soloist and recorded a few sides with Hawaiian groups, usually as a mandolinist, but sometimes in an accompanying role as a banjoist.

The Banjo on Record - "A Bio-Discography" , Uli Heir and Rainer E. Lotz

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"His Master's Voice" 2-9382

"His Master's Voice" 2-9351

Electrola E.G. 2-6258