Tony Trischka told us that this banjo is the only banjo he used on the A Robot Plane Flies Over Arkansas album, and the main banjo he used from that, his first album, to the Hill Country album. He told us that “from 1981 to 1991 this was my primary instrument.” This banjo is listed on the Stelling Banjo Works’ Chronology of Important Instruments and Significant Dates, which says: in January of 1982 Stelling finished banjo #2174 - a Sunflower - for Tony Trishka. The first banjo made in 1982 was #2172, so this would have been the third banjo Geoff made that year.