Gold Tone "Bluegrass Heart" Bela Fleck Signature Mastertone Banjo

If you've never seen Béla Fleck in concert, we highly suggest you do. Béla is on the perennial roster at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, so we have the great fortune to see him play every June. Béla pushes the banjo to a higher level of musicality, and witnessing Béla's banjo acrobatics is about as inspiring as it gets. After years of collaboration and conversations with Bela, the Gold Tone Mastertone Bluegrass Heart banjo was designed to be close enough in sound and feel to serve as a performance-grade backup for Bela's “Number 1.” Initially this was to be a one-off instrument, but as the design progressed and the prototypes produced results that got closer and closer to a banjo that could serve as a worthy stand-in for his main banjo, the possibility of a Signature Model was raised and discussed. The Gold Tone “Bluegrass Heart” Béla Fleck Signature Banjo is now a reality. Béla's "Number 1" is a 1937 Style 75 Mastertone pot with a neck built to Béla’s specifications by the great lu