To play a banjo you have to be a mechanic

[Jim Sliff]

Originally Posted by HHP

The way many people feel about them, wouldn't hurt to have some experience in proctology.

This is how I reach the OP's thread title... "To Play A Banjo You Must Be A Masochist"

Wanna start the banjo jokes?

I have about 200 of 'em....I'm immune!

[mr. beaumont]

If ya think banjo's tough, talk to a pedal steel player.

[cattzap]

The plus side of this is when you've been wanting one for a long time but for various reasons haven't got one yet, and you run across a used one in GC that's not a famous name but still semi decent yet way out of whack, and then you get if for almost nothing and take it home and after 20 minutes of adjusting you have a perty good picking little banjo with resonator back that yes, is heavy but plays and sounds cool then you say yea baby, score.