i bought one of these 2nd hand from the US..


Goldtone Banjitar Lightweight (BT-1000)

http://www.goldtone.com/products/pages/bt-1000.asp



lucky to get it at a really low price
[even including shipping & import-tax/VAT]

within a couple of days i tried it out in open G minor tuning..


and its remained permanently set up and intoned for that tuning ever since.

still fitted with a very heavy set of strings from previous owner..


[lowest bass string maybe sounds a bit too dead by now..]

.. somehow it just sounds right for dark doomy Gothic folk moods..