Whats the best banjo for a beginner?
The obvious answer is the best one you can afford but that doesn’t help much when you do not know if you will stay with it or whether you want to spend a whole lot on an unknown venture. The best advice I can give is to buy from a reputable dealer. Before you even start looking for a banjo, see if there is a good repairman near you. Very often they will know of banjos that people are looking to sell so that they can move up to a higher quality banjo but more importantly they can do a setup on whatever banjo you decide to buy and that setup can make the all the difference in the playability of the instrument. Very few banjo players who stay with the banjo for any length of time are still playing the banjo they started with. Therefore any decision regarding purchase should include some thought about resale. Banjos are no different than most items for sale. New things depreciate rapidly. Your competition when selling a relatively new instrument will clearly be new instruments. Your price
