[Zombrero]

Hello.
I have decided to buy a guitar banjo. Do you reccomend any particularly 6 string banjo?
I´m looking in the price range between 200-500 dollars.

[dadfad]

It really depends on what you want because there's not a big selection. Basically they're usually either fairly inexpensive or fairly expensive. Fender makes one for a couple of hundred or less, Framus makes one for several thousand. A company called Gold Tone does make one in the $500-$600 range (found at elderly.com). There's not a great selection because generally speaking a 6-string banjo is made for guitarists who want to have a banjo sound, usually for a couple of tunes or something, and not actual banjo-players (who don't consider them a real banjo) and so the market is fairly limited. They are also sometimes called a banjitar.

[Zombrero]

I cant find that Fender Banjo guitar you mentioned.

[dadfad]

I couldn't find it either, although I know they made one because I played it when a friend bought one a couple of years ago. It might have been discontinued. Anyway, here are links to a couple of other relatively inexpensive ones.

Dean


Rogue

And here's a link to Elderly Instruments, where they aren't quite as inexpensive.

Elderly Instruments

[improviduto]

Also known as the "guitjo", too.

[guru of rock n roll]

6 string banjo ? Blasphemy

[The_buffalo]

6 string banjo ? Blasphemy <_<

Blasphemy? Not really. It sure won't sound like a Martin D-28 or Gibson J-45, but it will be a lot louder, and I think that was the original idea, back in the pre-electric guitar days. They had to come up with some way of making their guitars heard over the collective volume of drums, horns, & piano, and that was one way to do it. (The other way was to add a metal cone - Dobro or resophonic.) I would never own one myself, as I already have a 5 string, and a 4 string tenor, but I remember seeing a 6 string Framus in a store around '68 or so & being tempted

[guru of rock n roll]

My dad played banjo up til strokes and he was freaking awesome. He mastered the Scruggs style. I stand by comment. If dude is gonna play bluegrass that is.