"I'm the mind behind the BanjoLisztProject Channel on Youtube"

"Thanks Austin. (I have to confess the joke has gone over my head...)"

"I'm just Joking this is well done"

"THALBURG!!!!"

"Thank you for the encouragement, Tony -- much appreciated! The ZB is growing on me..."

"Excellent!  I would agree with Jody about you and the ZB: you were made for each other.  It can take a while before a new instrument gets to sound the way you want it - for all our sakes, stick at it!"

"Thanks Joel, I just tried that on my Farland (with both fingers and a bit of wood). It just sounds like a quieter version of more or less the same sound, rather than a different sonority, which is what I imagined the the harp attachment, expression…"

"Thanks both very much. Jody, it still sounds a bit too harsh and tinny to my ears! Hard to temper. I have to wonder if the zither banjoists were right about nails (I play without)."

"This is really the first occasion you played a zither-banjo? If so I would say you and the zither-banjo are made for each other. That is excellent playing.  You bring out the characteristic zither-banjo shimmer but not the sonic harshness that…"

"That was a stellar rendition!"

"The info about the Expression Stop is extremely interesting, thank you for sharing. I would be very curious to hear how it sounds. The idea of having the banjo muted by default seems so counterintuitive."

"The current "free" versions (Chat GBT and Gemini) are capable of composing within the confines of prompts to generate audio files.  Currently, written music can be generated with ABC notation and Chat GBT can also generate musescore…"

"Tony, AI capability with music generation seems to be limited to modern popular styles. Not sure it's yet near coping with Grimshaw et al! Joel, I recall coming across an odd article in either Keynotes or BMG, I think, about how banjoists ought…"

"Just be happy we don’t live in a world where the best cases are bottom loading sole leather cases lined in wool flannel."

"Steven, I used to drool over the pics of Chapman cases, but it seems they have now gone out of business.  Shame.  As a practical suggestion: where cheap modern banjos are sold on the second hand market together with original hard case, it…"