Well Beau, please get angry and throw the tenor banjo or the mandola in my direction ;-) I may have wrecked one banjo but I love them and I can't see myself parting with my best one. It is a Kildare - a modern British built job. I am no great player but I seem to know (or probably more accurately, think I know) a good instrument when I find one and I think that you would have to do a lot of searching to find a better banjo for the GDAE playing.

Jon