Vega Vegaphone Professional 5-String Conversion 1926, Natural

This 1926 Vega Vegaphone Professional, converted from its original tenor configuration to a 5-string, gives you a genuine slice of Vega's jazz-age golden era in an instrument built for modern bluegrass playing. It's built around Vega's legendary Tubaphone tone ring, widely regarded as one of the best-sounding pre-war tone ring designs ever made. These tenor-to-5-string conversions are a well-established and respected practice in the bluegrass world, since it puts a genuinely excellent-sounding pre-war Vega pot into a configuration players can actually use for three-finger picking. A century old, a well-preserved example like this still plays and sounds every bit as good as it did in the 1920s, making it a serious tone instrument as much as a historical piece.