GOLD TONE, INC.
TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA

Company History Wayne and Robyn Rogers were active folk musicians in the 1970s when they decided to open Strings N' Things Music Center in 1978. Today’s Gold Tone Group started life as Gold Tone Banjos, founded in Titusville, Florida by Wayne and Robyn in 1993. Wayne designed and manufactured Gold Tone’s first banjo, the original TB-100 Travel Banjo and began and selling the "Traveler" via mail order. After a wonderful review by Banjo Newsletter, demand for the TB-100 mushroomed. As the company grew, Wayne’s innovations, combined with proven vintage designs, had dealers and their customers clamoring for Gold Tone’s affordable yet high-quality banjos. Gold Tone's offerings grew to include fretted string instruments of every description including four-string and five-string banjos, six-string banjos (banjitars), mandolin-banjos, Weissenborn Hawaiian steel guitars, metal- and wood-bodied resonator guitars and mandolins. "A great company, they live and breathe innovation in music. Amazingly fine quality, I only play goldtone. I get great compliments on my EBM at every gig for the last twelve years. Folks can't believe it didn't cost three times as much." "Gold Tone has mastered quality and value for all levels of acoustic players. The alternative folk style instruments have fulfilled a huge current need for those sounds, tones, designs that are blending old style music with a whole new generation of musicians.Buy Gold Tone if you want phenomenal quality and value." We love to play music, hear music, see music performed and to build and sell musical instruments. At Gold Tone, we embrace all music and musicians: beginners, hobbyists, professionals; fans of bluegrass, folk, pop, rock, or any genre. We believe that music is born in the human heart and that its expression is the ultimate statement of our humanity. Gold Tone's mission is to inspire everyone to give a voice to their musical ideas through the medium of our fretted instruments of the highest quality, offered at the fairest prices possible. Gold Tone was founded by Wayne and Robyn Rogers, who still operate it to this day. Our extended family works hard every day to ensure that each instrument that leaves our facility meets the highest standards of utility and value. All Gold Tone instruments are designed in-house by Wayne and our luthiers and are available nowhere else. Each and every instrument is played and inspected by Robyn Rogers herself, before being sent out into the world. At Gold Tone, we care about . Anyone who has ever owned a Gold Tone instrument is truly part of our family. you'll speak with someone that is committed to your total satisfaction. Whatever the issue: praise or criticism, custom work or repair, customer service or accessories, you'll find us eager to please and ready to help.