I'll bet Russ plays a bodhran. JUST KIDDING!Hey Frank! what a wonderful thread. You will have more fun with a banjo than... well just about anything 'cept maybe drinking a good oatmeal stout or ... hmmm, danged if I can recall.
anyway
Pick how you want, learn as much as you can about your new instrument and tweak it to suit and you won't need to get another until old age sets in and you feel like blowing your kid's inheritance so's the nursing homes don't get it. I still play my $90.00 Saga kit and wouldn't part with it EVER!
CB