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Pennington long neck submitted 5/3/2008 Submitter john bange (see all reviews from this person) Where Purchased banjo hangout Year Purchased 2008 Price Paid $620 historic exchange rates / currency converter Sound dan described the banjo as being bright with his rolled brass tone ring. this is very accurate...more so that my tubaphone...perfect for the type of music usually associated with the long neck banjo...changed the 9 to a 10...really happy Sound Rating 10 Setup set up was excellent...string height perfect Setup Rating 10 Appearance good looking banjo...few rough spots to the head stock which I will polish out...pot is drop dead gorgous...polished out the reworked head stock...removed some of the high gloss from the Gold Tone neck...many many compliments Appearance Rating 9 Reliability threw tuners away and installed new Gotoh's...rest is top notch...right in line with price...had for about 2 months now...play every day...third set of strings...the set up is still great...the sound is loud with one of Dan's own brass tone rings...best move I've made in a while Reliability Rating 10 Customer Service no worries... Customer Service 9 Components as I said...threw the tuners out..replaced the Stew-Mac tail-piece with a Waverly copy.everything else top notch Components Rating 9 Overall Comments for the price, this is one of the best banjo's I have purchased and I could not be more pleased...selling the gig bag and waiting for my new hcs...fits nice in my new, expensive(gulp) case Overall Rating 10