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I noticed that tone is severely effected by the way that the striking finger is angled when hitting the string. For me when hitting in dead on with the fingernail being perpendicular to the strings, the tone sounds dead and pinched off. Its almost like the banjo is trying to speak with its nose plugged. When I strike it like I normally do with the fingernail at almost a forty five degree angle to…