It's also grooved to hold the string spacing - like all banjos. The bridge is very standard looking three footed maple bridge with an ebony cap that, like all banjos, you fit and set yourself for scale length and intonation. You also get a tension wrench for adjusting these and tuning the head which you can only do having taken off the resonator first Staid and boring banjos these are not.įitted on to the rim is a flat bar tension hoop holding the clear plastic eight inch drum head, held and tensioned by twelve brackets in regular banjo style. See what they did there? And I must say, they all look utterly fabulous. But being a Little GEM, that is actually Diamond, Sapphire, Amethyst and Ruby. The rim and the resonator are the parts of a banjo that are usually made of wood, but here we move to that clear acyrlic, available in four colours - clear, blue, purple and red. Obviously the 'not so traditional' here comes down to the coloured but clear acryclic rim and resonator that the completely clear banjo head and drum sits on to. They are designed in the USA, but for price reasons are made in China. The Little Gems are a range of four 15" concert scale banjo ukuleles with a mix of the traditional and not so traditional design elements. And then when I saw 'the funky' of the Little Gem, I knew I just had to make this the first Gold Tone to feature. I hear a lot of good things about their regular ukulele banjos, but until now I had never tried one out. They are renowned for putting out some decent quality instruments, which, whilst not the highest end, are still rather good quality far eastern made models. Gold Tone are a USA brand who specialise in banjos, including regular models and ukulele banjos. That buzz comes partly from the fact that that these won the 'Best In Show' award for NAMM 2018 (some accolade!), and also because, well, they just look so damn funky! And despite 'little gem' being the name of a type of lettuce in the UK, I honestly didn't expect to ever be describing a banjo as 'funky'.
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