Gold Tone Mastertone ML-1 Missing Link Bela Fleck Baritone Banjo - Vintage Brown/High Gloss
Gold Tone Mastertone ML-1 Missing Link Bela Fleck Baritone Banjo - Vintage Brown/High Gloss Reviews
Crafted in collaboration with virtuoso banjoist Béla Fleck, the Gold Tone Mastertone ML-1 Missing Link is a high-performance, 5-string baritone banjo. This low-tuned beauty boasts a 12-inch, rolled-brass tone ring topped with a Remo Black Suede head, supported by a 12-inch, 3-ply Canadian maple rim and a notched tension hoop. The ML-1 is one of the most playable baritone banjos you'll ever pick up, thanks to its slim hard-rock Canadian maple neck and lightning-fast, compound-radius ebony fingerboard. High-level players will appreciate the rock-solid stability afforded by the ML-1's GT Planetary tuners, radiused bridge, and Terminator tailpiece. You also get a Gold Tone engraved armrest, art nouveau fingerboard inlays, black binding, light-catching chrome-plated hardware, and a slick-looking high-gloss finish. Searching for a baritone worthy of a virtuoso? The Gold Tone Mastertone ML-1 Missing Link is indeed the missing link.
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Worth the hype
I got this banjo because I play lots of bluegrass live with my bands and I always get stressed out when we play a song in C, D, E, or F because of the limitations of a standard banjo tuning. This banjo not only solves that problem (with help from a capo), but it sounds like magic. The low, tubby sound is reminiscent of John Hartford and then some. Playing a simple tune like Cripple Creek all of a sudden sounds artsy and moody on this instrument.
Only downside is that it wasn't necessarily built to play with a capo. I had to install a 5th string capo myself and had to buy a radiused banjo capo to fit properly on the convex fretboard design. Still, it works and allows me to play songs in weird keys while sticking to the standard chord shapes and licks.
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