Nah, the real reason is that there's a small club, called the Nirvana Club, that's literally about 100m down the street I live on, anyway on Tuesday and Thursday nights there's a live jam event where local Darwin musicians can get up onstage and jam with other musicians on songs, afterwards each musician gets a complimentary drinks voucher card which they can use at the bar, she wants me to fix the banjo so that it is available if someone wants to play it.
Initially, she wanted me to put new strings on it, but it turned out that the original nut and bridge were missing so I need to get replacements before I can even begin putting the new strings on.