I agree with Rex. I bought a long neck banjo because I tend to capo on the 5th fret when singing. The long neck offers me more frets to work with and more keys to sing in. Though I keep it in G tuning I can play it in other tunings. When playing in other keys, sometimes I will only tune the 5th string according to the key I want to play in. Other times I will use the capo.

Bonnie