The Deering Goodtime AE Piezo is a five-string electro-acoustic fitted with a piezo pickup. It is one of the so-called open-back instruments, i.e. a banjo without a resonator with an open back plate. The instrument's maple fingerboard is fitted with twenty-two pakfong frets, and position markers in an elegant bow tie design make it easy to navigate. An eleven-inch bellows is attached to the maple body by a steel rim. The strings are mounted in high quality, closed guitar-type mechanisms and over a maple/ebony fingerboard in a nickel-plated steel string.
All Deering instruments (from professional models to the entry-level Goodtime line) are made in Spring Valley, California, USA by skilled craftsmen. Here, each piece is given the same care and attention to meet strict quality standards.
Specifications
- Number of Strings: 5
- Instrument Type: Open Back
- Tone ring: No
- Resonator: No
- Body Material: Maple
- Neck: Maple
- Scale: 667 mm
- Number of Frets: 22
- Nut Width: 32 mm
- Fingerboard: Maple
- Bridge: Ebony/Maple
- Pickup: Yes
- Tuning Machines: Deering
- Hardware: Chrome/Nickel
- Hard Case: No
- Case: No
- Strings: Deering Light Gauge Banjo Strings
- Country of Production: USA