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Recording King RDJ-26
RECORDING KING INTRODUCES THE ALL-NEW
MADISON RK-R35 BANJO
Recording King continues to bring professional-quality banjos to market that offer the best values available. With the addition of the all-new Madison RK-R35, banjo players have an option of a high-quality, great-sounding banjo with a classic Mastertone-style tone ring and flange.
The Recording King Madison RK-R35 is built around a 3-ply steam bent maple rim, from the exact same construction and materials used in the best-selling RK-R80. It has a maple neck with an adjustable two-way truss rod and a comfortable rosewood fretboard. With a 24-hook brass tension hoop, players can adjust the head tension as precisely as on any world-class banjo. The planetary tuners, geared 5th peg and dual coordinator rods are effective professional components, and add an authentic feel to these impressive banjos.
The Madison RK-R35 has a maple resonator with a hand-rubbed brown matte finish. It is assembled with a Mastertone-style bell brass cast tone ring and a Mastertone-style one-piece flange. The Madison peghead and fretboard feature our Seagull inlay, for a banjo that looks as classic as it sounds.
The American threaded nickel-plated hook and nut hardware, as well as the true presto-style tailpiece and armrest are the same as featured on the popular RK-Scout. Like the other Madison banjos, the Madison Deluxe comes standard with an authentic Remo head.
THE NEW RECORDING KING SCHOENBERG O AND OO GUITARS
RP1/RP2-626
Recording King is excited to announce the result of our collaboration with the respected guitarist and historian Eric Schoenberg. The two new models will be a classic single 0 parlor size cutaway, and a 00-size with a cutaway body. The Recording King parlor guitars (RP1/RP2-626) offer players the even frequency response, clarity and wider neck traditional to a classic parlor style, but the unique addition of a cutaway gives fingerstyle guitarists easier access to the upper frets.
Eric Schoenberg’s influence on guitar marries traditional fingerstyle playing to classic ragtime and walking basslines. His “Fingerpicking Beatles” book is considered an essential text for modern fingerstyle players. Mr. Schoenberg prefers the 12-fret cutaway because he believes the 12-fret neck joint gives the guitars a gutsier voice, yet the cutaway is not so deep that it takes away from the sound. As Schoenberg describes it, the Recording King parlor guitars offer the best of both a 12-fret and a 14-fret neck joint, thanks to the cutaway. Schoenberg explains his decision to work with Recording King on these guitars in this way: “When the (Recording King) ROS-626 model came out, I saw it and said, the quality is excellent, the style is great; a collaboration on something similar is just what I’ve been looking for.”
On both the RP1-626 and RP2-626, the one-piece mahogany neck with a classic v-profile meets the body at the 12-fret with a hand cut dovetail joint, giving these guitars a true parlor sound, warm and rich, but perfectly balanced. The solid AAA Engelmann spruce top and solid mahogany back and sides have been carefully selected and hand-assembled. With a 1-3/4” nut width, Grover tuners, ebony fretboard and ebony pyramid bridge, these parlor guitars are as well-appointed and unique as they are beautiful. Each guitar is sprayed with a thin coat of nitrocellulose lacquer and then hand-buffed for a finish that is extremely resonant and historically accurate.
The RP1-626 and RP2-626 models have Recording King's industry-leading lifetime warranty.
THE NEW RECORDING KING RK-ELITE IN A CLASS BY ITSELF
Recording King is proud to introduce our most traditional
Pre-war style banjo ever. Modeled after the original Mastertone banjos
of the 1930’s the all-new Recording King RK-Elite offers players vintage
sound and handcrafted construction.
Professional components like a classic Mastertone-style tone ring, true
steam-bent 3-ply maple rim and nitrocellulose lacquer finish put this
banjo in a category by itself. With classic design features like the
vintage-style double-cut Recording King peghead and custom Flying
Eagle-style peghead and fretboard inlay, this banjo proudly carries
Recording King’s 75-year history into the present.
Featuring a one-piece mahogany resonator and a one-piece slim profile
mahogany neck and Mastertone-style tone ring, the RK-Elite is a
professional-level banjo with craftsmanship and features that usually
command hundreds of dollars more on competing banjos.
The RK-Elite comes with a Recording King vintage hardshell case and has Recording King’s limited lifetime warranty.
