Gold Tone BG-Mini Short Scale 8" Mini Bluegrass 5-String Banjo

If you teach banjo to kids, or have a child that REALLY wants to get serious about the five-string banjo, you are faced with a problem. Your eight- or ten-year-old is crazy talented, but playing a banjo that's bigger than he or she is can be a hurdle that's very hard to manage. You've perhaps gone the route of the "bargain" banjo; it's still full-sized and maybe it didn't play or sound that terrific, either. If you want to encourage a little picker, the Gold Tone BG-Mini is the only way to go. The Mini is a for-real, actual Bluegrass banjo that's been scaled down in size to provide pint-sized pickers with a professional-grade banjo. Its design echoes that of Gold Tone's BG-250F and features an eight-inch diameter head sitting on a rolled-brass rod tone ring, a two-way adjustable truss rod, bone nut, planetary tuners, geared fifth-string peg, and a complete pro setup in Gold Tone's Florida shop. The BG-Mini is tuned to open C (like the fifth fret of a standard banjo). This is NOT a novelty banjo; it's the real deal and adult players can use it as the ultimate travel banjo!


Color isn't to spec so we are B-listing it Huge savings.

• Neck: Maple
• Finish: Vintage Brown
• Fingerboard: Select Wood
• Bridge: Maple with Ebony Cap
• Tuners: Planetary
• Inlay: Snowflake
• Truss Rod: Two-Way Adjustable
• Tone Ring: Rolled Brass

• Rim: Multi-Ply Maple
• Tension Hoop: Flat Bar
• Flange: One piece Die Cast
• Binding: White ABS
• Brackets: 16
• Buttons: A-Style
• Hardware: Chrome Plated
• Pickups: Optional

• Tailpiece: No-Knot
• Resonator: 10" Mahogany
• Armrest: Reproduction of early
• Head: 8" LC Smooth
• Number of Frets: 19
• Nut Width: 1-3/16" Bone
• Scale Length: 19-3/4"
• Weight: 5 lbs.

• Tuning: CGCEG
• Tuning (Alternate): GDGBD
• Strings: .011, .024w, .016, .013, .011
• Strings (Alternate): .016, .034w, .024w, .018, .016
• Option 1: SMP+ Pickup
• Option 2: Fishman Rare Earth Pickup
• Hard Case: HDBG (Optional)
• Bag: Included