Attention: All crew members, all levels

How this affects you: This Addendum pertains to the recently announced dictate regarding musical talents. All crew members are to print out the Addendum and insert it into their personal copy of the Ship Regulation Manual. This Addendum should replace page 25 in chapter 5; “Crew Selection Criteria and Possible Consequences of Witholding Crucial Information During Recruitment Process”.

On behalf of the Ship Management, the Communications Secretariat would like you to be aware of an exception from the rule pertaining to string instruments:

The Message from the Ship Management, which has spent considerable time and effort analyzing the issue, the ban on string instruments which do not fulfill the criteria for “guitar”, “base” or “violin”, no longer applies to banjos. As our Main Commander put it so aptly during the weekly Steering Committee Meeting, “How could we play bluegrass without banjos?” Current crew members are no longer prohibited from learning to play the banjo in their spare time.

The exception is to be considered effective immediately and has been communicated to all employment agencies we use on Earth.

Please govern yourself accordingly.