Framus
Framus banjo (5 strings) 1970's
€450
Nice 5-string banjo from the Framus brand, made in the 1970s:
Technical characteristics :
- Top: Framus skin
- Sides: Mahogany
- Resonator: Maple
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Width at nut: 30mm
- Width at the 5th fret: 36.5mm
- Radius: Flat
- Frets: 22 frets (+ 1 zero fret)
- Scale: 686mm (27")
- Profile: “D”
- Hardware: Chrome
- Country of manufacture: Germany
- Year: 1970's
- Finish: Natural
- Decorations: Mother-of-pearl key markers / Brass inlay on the headstock
- Details: Traces of wear and cracked varnish which is normal given its age
The reversal, and the straightness of the neck being very good, this banjo has a low action, really very pleasant to play.
With its maple resonator, one of the musical woods par excellence, it offers very good projection with a characteristic sound of banjos from those years, powerful and harmonic.
Delivered in house.