Gosh, this thread is growing rapidly! I started to reply to Art's plea, then changed my mind; then I read that other thread, and decide I should reply after all: only to find half a dozen folks had beaten me to it already. When I did respond (just after the Hon Lord jnHo of Hlu), I found even more folks had jumped in.

Art and Martin: if we Brits take the mickey out of the banjo, it's only because we love it and consider it our own (like the British Empire).

Steve "Flying Fingers" Parkes