Where I live it's almost impossible to find banjos (so far I have only been able to find a brand called Caraya), not to mention accessories.
They do sell only one brand of banjo strings: LaBella (011, 013, 015, 021W, 011). When I needed to change strings (I broke some of the one that came with my banjo while tuning the first time) I had to go with LaBella.
It wasn't that bad, but I wasn't satisfied at all with the sound, it seemed to me too "metal", I don't know how to explain this, but the had too much resonance and were too bright or something. They just sounded wrong to me.
Recently I just replaced them with a D'Addario set (light, bronze), so far I'm liking the results a lot.
Was it just me and my bad technique or it's just that LaBella (specially that type) are just not suited for Old-time?