10-23

Medium  10 - 12 - 16 - 23w - 10

Loop end. 5 string set.

Barking Dawg Canadian Banjo Strings

No-one told the banjo its not cool anymore. Built for players who don’t baby their banjo.

Barking Dawg strings are engineered to deliver the dry crack, fast attack, and powerful note separation serious bluegrass players chase for decades. Loud under the pick. Tight in the low end. Clean all the way up the neck.

The wound 4th string is available in three distinct voices:

• Nickel-Plated Steel — tight, dry, and powerful with a focused growl and fast attack. Delivers strong note separation, clean projection, and the classic hard-driving bluegrass crack that cuts through a full jam without getting muddy.
• 80/20 Bronze — bright, lively, and aggressive with extra edge and snap. The attack comes off the pick fast, with a raw, ringing character that brings out old-school banjo bark and strong rhythmic drive.
• Phosphor Bronze — warmer and deeper with a thicker low-end response and a more complex overtone character. Still articulate and powerful, but with a woodier voice that pairs especially well with vintage-style banjos and melodic playing.

All three are built for fast response, strong fundamentals, and the kind of picking-hand feedback serious bluegrass players expect when they dig in hard.

The plain strings are high-tension, high-stability polished tin plated steel built for:

• solid intonation
• fast tuning recovery
• crisp pull-offs
• strong hammer-ons
• clean high-register clarity

These aren’t soft, floppy “vintage mellow” strings.

They’re built for:

• parking lot jams
• festival stages
• hard picks
• prewar-style banjos
• modern high-headroom banjos
• players who want the banjo to bark back

Expect:

• explosive growl
• dry bluegrass crack
• strong midrange projection
• clear note separation
• stable tuning under hard attack
• powerful Scruggs-style response

No coatings. No gimmicks. No artificial warmth. Just precision-made strings designed to sound alive the second they come up to pitch.

Barking Dawg Canadian Banjo Strings

Hand-crafted in Canada for players who demand more than off-the-shelf tone. 

10 - 12 - 16 - 23w - 10