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There have been a few issues and looking back I probably would still do business with them, I just might not have gotten that banjo. They discontinued carrying Morgan Monroe banjos just a couple weeks after they sold me mine, citing quality control issues. They assured me that they went over mine carefully setting it up and that there are no such issues with mine. That might be good in the sense that it got a good going over before it was shipped out. They gave me a good deal and threw in a hard case. I guess there was a reason though.

I like the banjo. I did take it to a bluegrass festival and attended several banjo workshops. A couple of the instructors looked it over and seemed to like it well enough, although a couple of them were not impressed with the tailpiece. But that is the only negative feedback I got from anyone about it. I ended up switching it out when I got home for a Prucha Presto tailpiece, which is what everyone I talked to recommended. It wasn't difficult to do, but it was fifty bucks more that I needed to put into it. I don't like that I have to take a brand new instrument and immediately have to start upgrading it. But I guess I could have left it the way it was, it certainly was not holding me back. I have already learned though that banjos are way easier to mess with than guitars.

Anyway, all that aside I'm pretty happy with it and satisfied with the purchase. I've had a few questions since this is my first banjo and have gotten some non definitive answers back. Like, we don't know what strings came on that banjo, we don't carry them anymore, and we don't know where the serial number on that particular banjo is located, we don't carry them anymore. Maybe there aren't any definitive answers to my questions, but it makes me wonder how much they did actually know about the banjo when they sold it and I'm left to figure that out on my own. I would do business with them again, but probably without the high expectations I was led to have.