A well-respected banjoist/music-store-operator posted this on a distribution list today. Too good not to pass on.

I had a customer this morning who was looking at banjos, and commenting on how hard it is to find a place that stocks them. He allowed as how he had been in a local guitar store (the owner's a good friend), and asked about banjos. They told him: "We don't carry them, because if we did, banjo players would come in the store."

Dave Oesterreich