There lots more tenor stuff at the hangout than there used to be, and they sure put the lie to the toothless grin banjo picker stereotype. I see a slippery slope ahead.

An aside...As an electric bass player (mostly five string, usually fretless) living in an acoustic and electric world, I've lusted after a bass banjo for years, but it's so far back on the priority list and hard to justify from an employment perspective. Some time ago I had the opportunity to run a five string bluegrass banjo through a digital octave divider effect and the sound was very cool, if a bit synthetic sounding. My bride will kill me if she discovers what I'm thinking!

Peace, Mooh.