"I appreciate your knowledge and experience.  I stand corrected.  "Zither banjo, not zither."  And I promise not to put pudding in, or bicycle wheels on, my Rolls should I ever get one."

"Not that my uneducated opinion matters or anything... But...  My opinion is... Strings on a banjo are like tires on a car.  I can put many different types, styles, and size of tires on my Rolls Royce.  But at the end of the day, no…"

"Hello Bethany,   I'm a firm believer in learning music theory and classic music notation.  Other folks play solely by ear and/or tabs.  And many will tell you the zither is not a good beginners banjo.  I believe your zither…"

"Thanks for the knowledge and experience share.  I took the advice and read a lot of the different posts about strings and tone.  I went to cliffordessex.com and ordered 2 each of their 5 different zither sets.  Going to have fun…"

"  It's amazing how many zithers I see on the U.K. Ebay.  Not near as many here in the states.  I've also seen them on shopgoodwil.com.  I liked my zithers so much, I got an inexpensive 6-string banjo at my local pawn…"

"Hello Ian, I own two zithers. A Windsor 46 and an earlier Wilmshurst.  Neither have the split fret.  I enjoy them both. "

"This was common with zithers.  So much so, many of them came with a split 2nd fret."