Don't knock banjos. I am very fond of mine, which came to me quite by chance as a dear friend inherited it from his father who had picked it up years ago as part of a sale lot and had no use for it & let me have it for £10, & I taught myself to do a bit with it. I like its tone, & find it pleasurable to play, & find it appropriate for many of the songs in my rep. Hear it on my youtube channel.

& for crying out loud, forswear prescriptiveness -- it's the 8th Deadly Sin!

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