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Old 02-06-2021, 01:41 PM
Steve DeRosa Steve DeRosa is offline
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Originally Posted by emuhunter View Post
...My budget is about $2000 (can go higher but it might take a little longer to save up for)...To put it into guitar terms if that’s at all helpful I’d like to buy her a banjo that would be the equivalent of, say, a J-45, D-18 or D-28: a known quality instrument that will undoubtedly be above where she’s at as a beginner but something that she’ll ideally never outgrow...

I don’t know that she specifically knows what kind of music she’d like to play ultimately but from what I gather she’s most interested in bluegrass...
Somewhat above your budget (you said that's OK), but structurally/tonally they've got everything she needs and nothing she doesn't:



https://banjo.com/product/deering-sierra/



https://www.elderly.com/collections/...-ii-banjo-case
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