Walking Eagle: you've got me nailed :-) The only reason I work is to support my music habit (and well I guess buy food for the cats & dog and help keep the roof over our heads, but that's secondary). Dulcimer, guitar & flute...your taste in instruments is exquisite!(another BG)

Scoville: save you're pennies, you're gonna love a baritone.    I discovered mine in a shop in south Jersey. I went in for a brief look at their music books since I was in the area, and ended up sitting with it for about three hours. Resisted buying it on the spot, 'cause I couldn't see telling my husband I'd made a ~$500 impulse purchase. But when I got home and told him about it, he said "Get it!" (Now you know why we recently celebrated our 20th anniversary). I recommend getting a deep bodied one. I tried the McSpadden at a festival recently and it was nice, but it just didn't have the soul-vibrating resonance that my big FolkRoots does (its made by the FolkCraft people, but it's a different line of instruments).