Harley Benton HBJ-24 Short Scale Tenor Banjo

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Harley Benton HBJ-24 Short Scale Tenor Banjo
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Good for the money
Bar6978 08.03.2022
Nice size and good for the price
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great instrument for good price
Jean4469 26.01.2022
Great instrument for a very good price.
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Nice for Irish tunes
Imre T. 30.04.2021
Finally I have received this simple, but pretty instrument, and according to some previous reviews ordered the Harley Benton Pro planetary tuners. Now, equipped with these tuners and a set of Deering Irish Tenor Banjo strings sounds very well. Only the nut and the bridge needed some little adjustment. Now I am inspired strongly learning as many Irish dannce tunes as possible. I have already three Harley Benton guitars, all they are wery well made, pretty and exceptionally playable. I recommend it for everyone.
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Very nice for its price, great first instrument!
WD-40 05.08.2023
This is my first tenor banjo and I was pleasantly surprised by it - the action is very low, it’s easy to play and sounds pleasant for the money. Unfortunately it doesn’t have much of the characteristic banjo “twang” — but you can’t really expect everything at this ridiculously affordable price point, can you?

It’s tuned to CGDA by default and plays quite well, but I mostly play Irish trad so retuned it to GDAE. Unfortunately as many others have remarked, the tuners don’t really hold tuning well at this much lower tension — and the banjo is also less in tune with itself (eg some o stave intervals are off while others are OK). I also had to tighten the banjo head to get the proper sound back (but that’s actually easy, just search on YouTube for a tutorial).

Overall, it’s was perfect for my first year of banjo playing - but now I’m ready for an upgrade.
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exellent banjo
barry123 11.02.2021
fast delivery exellent banjo well set up low action ready to play. price on site is £93 i was charged £112,i am in n-ireland which is still in the eu customs union.i do not under stand why i was charged extra
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Good Banjo!
ZENMANDO 04.06.2022
I don't know if I was just lucky, but this banjo is solid and flawless. I am now a fan of metal rim banjo's! There was some set up required (neck relief) and I put decent strings on for GDAE tuning which meant increasing size of lower string slots on the nut (careful if you do this, the nut is relatively soft plastic to file) Anyway solid instrument and good enough to take her out to a gig tomorrow
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Superb.
Peter R. 438 29.03.2024
Great little banjo, but the carrier destroyed it, returned it.
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Harley Benton HBJ-24 Short Scale Tenor Banjo