Howdy,
I play fretless and have a great banjo...a Ramsey custom set up just the way I like.
However, I have just come into a little bit of money, enough to easily afford a 2nd banjo....and I'm trying to decide the wisdom of the acquisition (another fretless, thank you)..
Pluses: avoid having the hassle of retuning when tuning out of G or A; easier to make sound good by tuning to alternate tuning; having a 2nd banjo to take to festivals, where if damage or stolen, I'm not completely devastated; buying that really cool Chuck Lee I saw; feeds instrument acquisition syndrome
Minuses; not saving money, allows me to take a short cut alleviating the need to tune (after all, how many banjos did Doc, Fred, Wade or Kyle have? Avoids instrument acquisition syndrome.
What do you all think?