Eagle-Puretone Irish Tenor Banjo String Set Medium Gauge Custom Kieran Hanrahan 12 16 28w 38w

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A finely-Crafted set of Precision-Wound Irish Tenor Banjo string:- Custom medium gauge set for GDAE Irish tuning on a 19 fret standard scale banjo as endorsed by Kieran Hanrahan. Loop Ended 12 Plain, 16 Plain, 28w Phosphor Bronze Wound, 38w Phosphor Bronze Wound.  Please see below for more details.

Full description

Description

Our company owner Steve Noon, has played Irish Tenor Banjo for over three decades.

Throughout this period of time Steve and his wife Joan have visited Ireland on a regular basis and played music with some of Ireland’s greatest traditional musicians.

It was many years ago when Steve first met banjo ace Kieran Hanrahan at an all Ireland Fleadh Cheoil (festival of music) A multiple all Ireland banjo champion, founder member of 'Stocktons Wing' and RTE radio presenter, Kieran is without question one of the greatest Irish tenor banjo players of all time.

Steve has noted over the years that there are many different string gauges used by top Irish tenor banjo players, the string set here is the one preferred by Kieran and gauged 12 plain, 16 plain, 28w Phosphor bronze Wound, 38w Phosphor bronze Wound

Kieran uses this set on his 19 fret Deering Calico Banjo that was supplied to him by Eagle Music.

Specification

Number of Strings
4 String
Instrument Suitability
Banjo, 4 String Banjo,
String Weighting
Medium
String Winding
Plain + Roundwound
String Fitting Type
Ball End, Loop End,
String Winding Material
Nickel, Phosphor Bronze,
As used by Artist
Kieran Hanrahan

Customer reviews

5 / 5
4 reviews for Eagle-Puretone Irish Tenor Banjo String Set Medium Gauge Custom Kieran Hanrahan 12 16 28w 38w
Reviews.io customer reviews
Richard Whitehouse
12/06/2023
Good
Rated 5 out of 5
Sarah Longland
24/05/2023
I haven't used these yet so can't comment.
Rated 5 out of 5
23/02/2023
Good quality . Will buy again
Rated 5 out of 5
John Perrins
03/05/2022
Great products after getting advice from Matt
Rated 5 out of 5