Banjo
Oscar Schmidt OB6
Price: 353 EUR – 353 EUR
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A six-string banjo (often called a banjitar or guitar-banjo) tuned and fretted like a guitar, letting guitarists play banjo tone using entirely familiar chord shapes rather than banjo's five-string open tunings.
About the Oscar Schmidt OB6
The OB6 shares its core construction with Oscar Schmidt's five-string OB5, but adds a sixth string and a wider 1-11/16-inch nut, tuned like a standard guitar (EADGBE) rather than the open-G-family tunings a traditional 5-string banjo uses. That makes it directly playable by any guitarist without learning new chord shapes or a re-entrant tuning - the banjo body simply changes the timbre of already-familiar guitar technique.
Construction is a nato neck with a mahogany resonator and multi-inlay rosewood fingerboard across 22 frets, a 30-bracket cast aluminum tone ring, and a Remo head, at a 26 1/4-inch scale. Both back and sides are mahogany with a gloss finish, and Oscar Schmidt markets it explicitly as appealing equally to guitarists wanting a banjo sound and banjo players wanting a more familiar six-string layout.
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Sound character of the Oscar Schmidt OB6
This is a 6-string 'banjo guitar' tuned EADGBE like a standard guitar rather than open-G banjo tuning, aimed at guitarists crossing over. With no metal tone ring specified and an all-mahogany resonator/back/sides, it favors a warmer, rounder tone than a traditional metallic-ringing 5-string bluegrass banjo, closer to a guitar's chord voicing with banjo-style attack and shorter sustain.
Technical data for the Oscar Schmidt OB6
| Neck | Nato |
|---|---|
| Resonator/Back/Sides | Mahogany |
| Fretboard | Rosewood |
| Frets | 22 |
| Nut width | 1-11/16" |
| Scale length | 26 1/4" |
| Tuning | EADGBE (guitar) |
Price history for the Oscar Schmidt OB6
Cheapest seen: 353 EUR · Most expensive seen: 353 EUR
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The history of the Oscar Schmidt OB6
Six-string banjo-guitars have existed since the early 20th century as a crossover instrument, and Oscar Schmidt's OB6 continues that tradition specifically for guitarists who want banjo's bright, percussive tone without learning an unfamiliar tuning system.
