I once had a Harmony tenor banjo. I'm not sure where it was made. Weird thing was the rim and resonater were made out of some bakelite type material. I wouldn't say that it had the best tone in the world (I have heard far worse sounding banjos though) but it played well. The last time I saw it (it changed hands a few times - I swapped it for a goretex jacket), it had been fitted with a cittern type neck and a resonater made out part of a warming pan - even weirder...

Jon