Pete Seegar's missing banjo? Turned up within a week or two. It seems he left on top of the car or soemthing, it fell off someone found it, gladly returned when they figured out who lost it.

The longneck by Deering? They make a couple. Go here and click on the "long neck" link on the home page. The Black Diamond and The Folk Era banjos look beautiful, in fact I love the high end Deering banjos - and I don't think tehy make a bad banjo at any price range. They are also making the long neck Vega banjos. I bought one of these beauties recently, and have been thrilled to death every time I play it! It is a fine instrument with a great sound.

While I believe the long neck was invented to accommodate those odd keys below G, and still use G tuning - it definately does, as someone's already said, lend a 'baritone' quality to the sound. My Vega sounds great capoed at the 5th fret and higher, has tonal qualities like many of the fine banjos we're used to hearing, but it has a surprising deep, rich quality when played in F or E with G tunings. It's almost a different instrument sound.

Do I sound like a long neck Vega fan?? I guess I am! It's a better instrument then I am a player ... but I'm workin' on that!