The tune is never the same on my banjo. Be nice for it to stay in ^#}!!! tune for the duration of one song....

Reading some of the posts here, the authentic side of things preclude most instruments after crumhorns, lutes, clavichords and banging a rock with a stick.

For most of the exciting young folk acts I see and buy their albums, Moog synthesisers are "before my time" historical instruments.