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Gold Tone Little Gem

Name: Gold Tone Little Gem
Brand: Gold Tone

Gold Tone · Little Gem Concert Banjolele

Price: 191 EUR – 229 EUR

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Availability: 2/10 (Very rare)

A banjo-ukulele hybrid with a transparent acrylic rim and head, giving it the percussive snap of a banjo in a ukulele-scaled, see-through novelty body available in four transparent colors.

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About the Gold Tone Little Gem

A banjolele (banjo-ukulele) replaces a ukulele's wooden soundboard with a banjo-style drum head stretched over a rim, producing a brighter, more percussive, banjo-like snap than a standard wooden ukulele. The Little Gem's 8-inch rim and head are both clear acrylic rather than the traditional wood rim and animal-skin or mylar head, making the entire resonating chamber transparent - a visual novelty on top of the tonal difference a banjolele already offers.

Construction includes a maple neck and fingerboard (rather than a separate rosewood or walnut board), a maple bridge with an ebony cap, and a 15-inch concert scale with 18 frets at a 1 3/8-inch nut. Twelve brackets under a flat-bar tension hoop let the head tension be adjusted, similar to a full-size banjo, tuned in standard ukulele GCEA. Sealed guitar-style tuners keep tuning stable despite the light overall build, and it's available in four "gem" colors - Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire and Amethyst - with a gig bag included.

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Sound character of the Gold Tone Little Gem

Replacing a wooden soundboard with a drum-style acrylic head over a rim is what gives this its banjo character: a bright, percussive snap with fast decay rather than the sustained resonance of a wooden ukulele top, further sharpened by the acrylic head's harder surface compared to natural skin or mylar.

Bright Percussive Crisp

Technical data for the Gold Tone Little Gem

Rim/Head	8" clear acrylic
Neck/Fretboard	Maple
Bridge	Maple with ebony cap
Frets	18
Scale length	15" (concert)
Nut width	1 3/8"
Tuning	GCEA

Price history for the Gold Tone Little Gem

Cheapest seen: 191 EUR · Most expensive seen: 229 EUR

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The history of the Gold Tone Little Gem

Gold Tone, known for banjo, resonator and hybrid fretted instruments, built the Little Gem as a compact, visually distinctive entry into banjo-ukulele playing, aimed at players drawn to the banjolele's bright tone but wanting something more novel-looking than a traditional wood-rimmed instrument.