If you play 12-string guitar, you won't believe the tremendous sound you get when playing the same style on the 12-string banjo! We didn't believe it until after we built the first one, custom for Barry Hunn, and then heard him play it. It even took us by surprise! It is capable of a powerful sound and presence while also able to produce music so sweet that it seems to have been brought down from heaven by angels.
It is tuned just like a 12-string guitar, and you use the same chords and fingering - nothing new to learn. Tuned EE,AA,DD,GG,BB,EE.
The 12-string banjo is built similar to a D-6 banjo but with a Deering tailpiece and compensated bridge. The mahogany neck shape is very comfortable and easy to play. Diamond shaped mother-of-pearl inlays are set into the arched ebony fingerboard. The action is excellent.
Joe Satriani played a D-12 on the song, "Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness" on his "Extremist" CD that went Gold. David Hidalgo played a D-12 on Los Lobos' "Kiko" CD on the song, "Two Janes".

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