Lest this turn into a banjo thread, I'll try to keep this brief:

* I don't know what sort of skin my banjo's got: my late father reskinned it in the mid-1960s, and I can't ask him now. But it's lasted six decades, which may be a clue; and humidity does seem to affect it.

* It's a good example of an instrument where tightening one string causes the others to go slack a tad. Mine sometimes takes two passes to get near in-tune using the clip-on, plus twiddling afterwards by ear.*

* It probably wouldn't survive a house fire. The drum part is recessed into a solid-wood reflector which goes around the back; this makes it awfully loud, so I wouldn't hear the match being struck.

We now return you to the discussion of clip-on tuners.

* At least it's not as permanently out of tune as a nylon-strung guitar with fresh strings.