An instrument "that will allow for more expression than a banjo..."? Don, I find the banjo a highly expressive instrument. I know both bluegrass and Irish banjo are usually played more for for percussive drive than emotional expression, but there are a lot of other styles (have you heard Tony Ellis?). While I'm trying to master fast fiddle tunes, my favorite things to play on banjo are slow ballads, and I think the instrument is wonderfully suited to this kind of music, and fully capable of a wide range of expression, even with frets, what with slides and chokes and harmonics, hammer-ons and pull-offs (no, Spaw, not that kind of pulling off--that's dangerous with a banjo).
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