Gold Tone Bluegrass Heart Béla Fleck Signature Custom 24 Fret 5-String Banjo

The Gold Tone Bluegrass Heart is Béla Fleck's signature banjo, and this one is a custom. It has a 24 fret mahogany neck with a radiused fingerboard, so you get room to keep working up the neck along with the speed and comfort a radius gives you when you are moving between keys. If you play single string, or you change keys often enough that 22 frets has started to feel like a wall, this is the one to look at.

This banjo is new, and it ships in its case.

This instrument receives a complete professional setup by our banjo tech Tara at Banjo Warehouse in Yellow Springs, Ohio before it ships.

• Neck: mahogany, two-way adjustable truss rod
• Frets: 24
• Fingerboard: ebony, 5-10" compound radius
• Scale length: 26-3/16"
• Nut: TUSQ, 1-9/32" width
• Inlay: flying eagle with red hearts
• Rim: 11" three-ply maple
• Tone ring: 11" flat top, no hole, bell brass
• Head: white suede
• Flange: one piece cast
• Resonator: mahogany with concentric rings
• Bridge: maple with padauk cap
• Tailpiece: Prucha Presto
• Armrest: black corian
• Binding: cream
• Hardware: nickel plated
• Finish: mahogany satin
• Right-handed, 5-string, gDGBD
• Case: included

The label inside the rim credits the design of the Bluegrass Heart to Béla Fleck, Wayne Rogers and Marc Horowitz. The 24 fret neck on this particular banjo is a custom and is not part of the production specification.

Geoff Hohwald is the author of The Banjo Primer, the #1-rated beginner banjo method, and has been selling fine banjos since 1980, now based in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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