The more time you spend with nice musical instruments, the more you start to notice their personality. After all, tone, durability, volume and playability should be a given, so what is left? What is left are the little details of sound, texture and design that give it a personality. After playing this little banjo, I can only describe its personality as “sweet.” It just is. Sweet to look at, sweet to hold and sweet on the ears. The curly maple is from the Carpenter Ant stash in Portland and the pistachio is from California Orchards.