Gryphon’s sustained commitment to quality ensures that no instrument not at optimal playing condition is sold. The Gryphon Advantage: This instrument has been personally setup by a member of our repair staff. It's in excellent cosmetic and structural condition. This banjo has a 12-inch head with an ebony tone ring tone ring. The Kershner tailpiece, tension hoop, as well as the inside shoe bolt cover band are profusely engraved and nickel plated. The fingerboard, peghead, back strap and heel cap are all inlaid and elegantly engraved with a classic floral pattern of the 1890's and this is some of the nicest engraving we’ve seen. The heel carving is inspired by the work found on S.S.Stewart’s presentation grade instruments. The neck is made of select figured maple and it has an extended back strap down to the fourth fret position. This Grand Promenade banjo was crafted by Bob Flesher and it’s one of the loveliest banjos we’ve offered in a long time. Black bindings and black buttons on the Master Planetary tuners complete the elegant look. The gorgeous art nouveau inlay pattern (of Béla's own design) travels the length of the neck all the way to the peghead, interrupted only by a Zero Glide nut (for super-accurate intonation and low-friction tuning). The hard rock Canadian maple neck is topped by a rich black ebony fretboard, honed to a compound radius (5" to 9") and fitted with jumbo frets. A specially-made Remo Black Suede head carries a custom 7/8" bridge and an all-wound custom string set hooks up to a Gold Tone Terminator tailpiece. an octave below the fifth fret of a standard five-string) the ML-1 features a twelve-inch, three-ply maple rim supporting a bronze tone ring. Tuned to open C (in a G configuration, i.e. Béla collaborated with Gold Tone president Wayne Rogers over many months and after overcoming many challenges and the building of several prototypes, the ML-1 "Missing Link" came into being.
While Béla had already been playing a Gold Tone CEB-5 Cello Banjo, he felt that there should be a banjo to fill the gap between the cello banjo (tuned to G, an octave below the standard banjo) and the standard five-string. One of these, John Hartford, made extensive use of a low-tuned five-string banjo (a twelve-inch Farland from the 1920s) in his music.
With original hardshell case and special bridge mute mechanism specially made for his banjo.īéla Fleck, surely today's best-known banjoist, has his own heroes. Mahogany neck and resonator, Page tuners, Adjustable truss rod, Pearl “Trujo” inlay on rear of headstock, Chrome plated parts, Special deep 3 1/4″ body construction for the Truett-patented megaphone tone ring (28 hole tube attached to metal megaphone), Grover “eagle claw” tailpiece, Gibson type armrest, One missing resonator thumbscrew, B & D style resonator with wide “W” shape flange holes, 26 1/8″ string scale. Trujo style A plectrum banjo shows a little wear, but no abuse, and all-original parts except for plastic head. Due to the depth of this having the original case is a big deal. Very clean original finish and sounds great. This Brazilian Rosewood is well-figured and richly resonant, and when coupled with Fernandez's trademark ornate carving at the Brazilian Rosewood headstock and bridge, gives the guitar a striking beauty, one to play for decades and decades yet.Outside of some wear to the arm rest, replaced head and one missing bolt this banjo appears to be completely original, untouched and in closet queen shape. After only a few minutes, you can tell that this guitar has been lovingly played for hundreds of hours since its birth in 1976-the Cedar has fully opened up, and the entire body feels electrically charged, crescendos leaping off the fretboard.Ĭapable of bringing new light to dark, brooding passages, this Classical also performs beautifully for a minuet or lament, with trebles that are crisp and hang in the air for long seconds. This one is decked out in a striking set of Brazilian Rosewood and Cedar, which combine to give the guitar a rich, aggressive voice, the perfect combination of depth, warmth, and projection. If you like the Jeronimo Pena Fernandez Classical we just got in the shop, we're here to give you another chance to own a certifiable knockout of the Classical guitar world.
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