Well, Martin, I hear what you say, but I think the balance of the other debate was against you on that point, and thinking of the converse Joe Stead has an intrument built for him with a banjo-type neck on a vaguely guitar/bazouki-ish body that I think sounds so much nicer than a banjo but still, because of the tuning, not like a guitar. For me that bastard (the instrument, not Joe) works well.