Interesting comments, there obviously are some nice Gibson's around and I am beggining to wonder whether I have just been unlucky with the few I have either played or listened to in a purely accoustic environment, maybe one day...

As for their other instruments, I know of an early A Model mandolin round here that I would dearly love to own and a Mando-Cello. I have never had the pleasure of meeting a Mastertone Tenor banjo - again, maybe one day.

Jon