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Published on 01/08/11 at 15:00This is the Dean Backwoods 6. Call it an acoustic guitar that sounds like a banjo, call it a banjo tuned like a guitar, maybe even a hybrid name like Banjotar? Guitjo?
Either way it rocks. I keep one of these in my studio arsenal just in case a track needs a little banjo. When I'm not recording with it, it makes one heck of a conversation piece. Everyone wants to check it out.
I saw it in my local Guitar Center. It was used. Normally they run around $250, I paid $175 on the used market. I play it with regular medium/light gauge guitar strings.
You don't have to think! It sounds very close to a banjo but plays with the same left hand fingers as a guitar. The string tension and spacing that you are already used to helps out a great deal as well.
Nothing at all.
Well built. This is a closed back design which gives it that extra twang that a banjo should have. It came stock with a Remo head and Grover brand tuners.
Get one now and call your friends over for a hoedown later! All your guitar licks transfer right over to the Backwoods. A brilliant build by Dean.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
Either way it rocks. I keep one of these in my studio arsenal just in case a track needs a little banjo. When I'm not recording with it, it makes one heck of a conversation piece. Everyone wants to check it out.
I saw it in my local Guitar Center. It was used. Normally they run around $250, I paid $175 on the used market. I play it with regular medium/light gauge guitar strings.
You don't have to think! It sounds very close to a banjo but plays with the same left hand fingers as a guitar. The string tension and spacing that you are already used to helps out a great deal as well.
Nothing at all.
Well built. This is a closed back design which gives it that extra twang that a banjo should have. It came stock with a Remo head and Grover brand tuners.
Get one now and call your friends over for a hoedown later! All your guitar licks transfer right over to the Backwoods. A brilliant build by Dean.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com