I love the mwah.

The Waterstone Meaden Fretless 4 string bass is a limited edition stunner. It is a medium scale instrument with a full hollow construction, making it lightweight , while sized the same as the Meaden guitar.

Like every Waterstone I have encountered, the finish is great and the binding is eye catching. A bad word cannot be spoken about the appearance of any model we have reviewed, and there have been several!

Back to the bass… with the hollow construction, the fretless “mwah” that so many love is resonant and full, and the pickup positioning allows for a variety of tones from deep to bright

Being fretless, the dot markers on the side of the neck indicate finger positioning and fret position which makes it easy to learn the neck. As with all fretless instruments, “learning” the neck is mandatory but not an unpleasant endeavor. Especially on this beauty.

Like all Waterstone basses, the factory setup is very good.

Guitar setups have been known to be less than satisfactory (always easily remedied), but there is something magical about a Waterstone bass- and this special fretless Meaden in no exception.

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 For quite a while I had wanted to learn to play a banjo, but both time and money had stopped me from pursuing it any further than the “want” stage. After playing some of the guitars available from Rondo music, I was convinced of the quality of the SX brand of instruments. So I sucked it up and dropped the cash for this little beauty- the SX Country 5-String. Big spender, huh? you will see the answer to that in a minute….

I know nothing about banjos, other than the appearance, but I do know how valuable it is to have an instrument that will stay in tune when you are trying to learn. The SX Country 5 string has done that abundantly well.

Upon arrival, I pulled up an online banjo tuner , printed out some chord charts and was on my way. Not to get into the ins and outs of playing a banjo, but , man those chords are weird! ( There are 6 string banjos out there that tune like a guitar, but I went the other way…)

This banjo is well constructed, the frets are pretty smooth and the sound is pretty darned good, and not so loud as to have my wife throwing the banjo away as I struggle to learn.It does project well, do not get me wrong.

A few specs:
Body is Malapoga wood, an indonesian red wood that is actually quite stunning.
The head is a REMO banjo head….
D’Addario strings and decent tuners complete the package.
Ships with a bargain basement gig bag, but at least it had a bag. Not all SX instruments come with one, in my experience.

To sum up this limited review of the SX Country 5 String banjo: for a beginner like me on a budget, this was a great investment. Beautiful, solid construction and quality workmanship combine to allow this little back woods beauty for only $139.95…

If you have been thinking about it- this is a great way to dip the toe in the world of the banjo.

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