Got myself a Terry Bell Boucher minstrel banjo, tuned it dGDF#A:
See here:
http://bell.20m.com/banjos.html
Looking for an instructor in the Bay Area of California who favors the tablature approach.
[ BIll Evans has kindly offered minstrel lessons, but he takes a notation approach (reading the original 1855 Briggs tunes in the original notation), but I would prefer a tablature approach. But might still take some lessons from Bill, the "master".]
JonS