Gretsch G9480 Laydie Belle Tenor Banjo

GRETSCH G9480 LAYDIE BELLE TENOR BANJOThe new short-scale Laydie Belle Irish Tenor banjo is designed for playing traditional music. Loud and proud with a Whyte-Laydie tone ring and three-ply solid maple rim, the G9480 comes with special-gauge strings for Irish Tenor tuned GDAE (one octave below a mandolin) so mandolin and fiddle players can add banjo to their tonal palettes. With other string gauges it can also be tuned as a standard tenor (CGDA) or "Chicago Tuning". Other features include a three-piece maple/walnut/maple neck, 17-fret rosewood fingerboard with vintage-style B&D inlays, 19 scale, 24 tension brackets with notched hoop, 11 Remo High Crown Renaissance head, vintage-style No Knot-type tailpiece, 1 3/16 nut, geared die-cast machine heads, Vega-style armrest, nickel-plated hardware, and a luxurious amber maple gloss finish. Optional G2193 Irish Tenor Gig Bag (#099-6499-000).