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Deering Goodtime Artisan Junior - Short Scale 5 String Banjo Reviews

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Artisan Goodtime Jr banjo from Deering Banjos, San Diego USA. With newly designed inlays,fingerboard and headstock design. Updated from the Classic goodtime with the same superb build quality and playability. Features factory fitted fitted with spikes at 7,9 and 10th fret. See below for detailed specifications. This small 19 Fret Jr 5-string banjo is ideal for travel, teaching children or for simple enjoyment by anyone. Featuring Midnight Maple Fingerboard and Vintage Artisan inspired inlays! The stunning new Artisan Goodtime banjo embodies Greg Deering’s lifelong vision for the Deering Banjo Company – to make the best sounding, best playing, best looking, and best value U.S.A. made banjo that he possibly could. It is a never ending quest that Deering pursues every single day. So with improved tooling and a higher than normal dose of creativity, we bid farewell to our old friend the Classic Goodtime and welcome with open arms the stunning aesthetic of the new Artisan Goodtime Banjos. The familiar rich dark brown stain, planetary tuning pegs allows this light weight maple banjo to exceed the features customers wanted and needed. The violin-grade maple rim is made of the same wood used on the professional level Deering models and gives the Goodtime banjo a rich, full, round note distinction. Light weight enough to travel with, convenient enough to keep by your easy chair at home, the Goodtime Artisan is great for hours of practice with a neck that is both comfortable to play and accurate to fret. This Goodtime banjo is not only beautiful to look at but will bring you hours of musical enjoyment. Tone Has a clear and bright sound of maple with an easy to play with clarity of note separation. Tuned G,D,G,B,D in standard G tuning.Can easily be tuned in other tunings as well. Comes from the factory with light gauge strings: 10, 11, 13, 21W, 10 Setup Each banjo we supply is individually set up in our on-site Specialist Workshop here at Eagle Music. Any banjo purchased from Eagle will be fully SET UP, checked for intonation and playability and tuned ready for playing straight out of the box! Warranty The trust and pride we share in our product gives us the confidence to grant every owner of a Goodtime banjo a 6 year warranty ensuring the quality of our materials and workmanship.

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Goodtime Artisan Junior Banjo...wow absolutely love it 19 fret great for my arm length open back very lighweight and it sounds great lovely sustain and tone had a black satin head put on and it looks the business ...fantastic banjo for older smaller handed players definitely recommend
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Posted 1 year ago
Avril Cormack
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I have small hands and have been really struggling to reach some of the chord shapes with my full size banjo. So I tried this one and couldn't believe how much easier it is to play. Beautiful sound and beautiful to look at too. I love it.
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Posted 2 years ago