This banjo comes with professional, planetary tuning machines, a cast aluminum rim, and a beautiful, inlaid headstock. • Cast Aluminum Rim • Planetary Tuners • Inlaid M.O.P. Headstock Design • Mahogany Resonator with Thumb Screws • Bound Rosewood Fretboard • Geared 5th Peg • Mahogany Neck • 30 Brackets • Nickel-Plated Armrest

To get a feeling for how the clawhammer style for which this banjo is made fits into a world-class band, check out this video of the Red Hots to see how the 5-string open back played clawhammer style fits into the new high-energy Old-Time revival…this ain’t no jazzed-up Bluegrass (Note: The Red Hots call themselves a “regressive" band...and they drink coffee when they play…at least whatever it is in coffee” cups :-) The Red Hots are regarded by many, including myself, as the most “wicked great” of all the New Wave of Old-Time/Roots bands. Funny how old music becomes the new new thing, and clawhammer banjo is an essential part of it.

Even though the brilliant clawhammer banjo was very much present in the Red Hots video (that band is so tight, that the banjo and fiddle kind of comprise a single instrument), so here is another video with one of the finest clawhammer banjo players, Kathy Fink, taking the lead...you will definitely notice her 5-string playing over the fine Cello Banjo playing of Marcy Marxer in this one!

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