I pick a little banjo, and there are plenty of "banjo snobs" who think if you are not playing a banjo with Gibson on the headstock, then your banjo is inferior and you are not taken seriously as a player.
I pity these people. Like guitars, there are soooo many other brands of banjo (American and foreign) that are every bit as good and often better. And usually less expensive.
Gibson banjos could be hit and miss. There were some years when they were not good at all. The best ones were definitely the finest in the business. Gibson's (particularly the pre-war ones) had a sound all their own, although nowadays there are a lot of banjos that replicate the sound very well.
Still...the snobs would keep playing their Gibson's, even if it was a crappy one, and still think they were better than anyone who didn't.
Funny thing is....Gibson doesn't even make banjos anymore.
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