"Thanks Carrie. It felt kind of clunky or rigid to me, but I did make progress with not looking at my hands so much. Different mic placement helped with the sound this time."

"Great timing there Tom - your ZB sounds really nice too."

"Very nice! Love your demeanor as you play, too!"

"That's really good Tom.  The tune sounds sweet on your ZB."

"Only two months!!???   You have made amazing progress.   Excellent playing and tone. You make that Zither banjo sound just like it should Keep up the good work and keep them coming"

"Joel - I appreciate how clear and open your statements about classic banjo have been. My understanding is that while there are certain parameters to stay within, there is a lot of room for freedom, too. One thing I took from the interviews in that…"

"Rob - Yes, the repertoire is what attracted me to classic banjo. Thank you for sharing some beautiful examples of it! I recognize that tastes differ. When I first heard some of those recordings I was tempted to reconsider classic banjo as a…"

"I came across it a few weeks ago. I found it interesting. I don’t have the background to offer a critique. I did find the interview section very interesting.  I especially found the comments about the early banjo recordings interesting. I…"

"“Parlor“ music happens in my life occasionally. The reason why it doesn’t happen more often is usually busyness, illness, and conflicting schedules. TV is not much of a factor, although personal devices do serve to take up time and…"

"No need to break up a set. Ball end steel strings of light gauge (.007) are easily bought as singles."

"Sounds cool! I suppose on a guitar set up for steel strings it would be easy to use the octave g from a 12 string or Nashville set. I think there are thin gauge strings available for nylon, too. It has been nice to get in some quiet practice early…"

"At least one guitarist, Alec Stone-Sweet has replaced the A string on one of his guitars and replaced it with a light gauge wire. He tunes the four strings above that in various banjo tunings and tunes the new thin 5th string and the usual wound…"

"I think you might be thinking of the August Pollmann mandolin banjos.  AFAIK, SSS did not make anything like that. The best info we have now is that the Pollmann mandolin banjos were strung with wire and were played with a plectrum (at least…"