The Irish Tenor Banjo - Blarney Star Productions
... other animal was tied or tacked in place over this opening. The neck was fretless, sometimes little more than a stick thrust through the gourd body. Strings might be made from braided horse hair, thread, gut, hemp or any other tough fiber. Unlike African lutes, on which the strings are attached to s ...
... other animal was tied or tacked in place over this opening. The neck was fretless, sometimes little more than a stick thrust through the gourd body. Strings might be made from braided horse hair, thread, gut, hemp or any other tough fiber. Unlike African lutes, on which the strings are attached to s ...
The Irish Tenor Banjo - Blarney Star Productions
... other animal was tied or tacked in place over this opening. The neck was fretless, sometimes little more than a stick thrust through the gourd body. Strings might be made from braided horse hair, thread, gut, hemp or any other tough fiber. Unlike African lutes, on which the strings are attached to s ...
... other animal was tied or tacked in place over this opening. The neck was fretless, sometimes little more than a stick thrust through the gourd body. Strings might be made from braided horse hair, thread, gut, hemp or any other tough fiber. Unlike African lutes, on which the strings are attached to s ...
Adapted from the Country Music Hall of Fame ® and Museum`s
... Banjos are plucked or strummed stringed instruments whose distinctive tones stem from the strings being supported by a bridge that rests on a tightly stretched skin membrane. Historically, American banjos are descendants of a broadly related family of lutes developed in West Africa from earlier Midd ...
... Banjos are plucked or strummed stringed instruments whose distinctive tones stem from the strings being supported by a bridge that rests on a tightly stretched skin membrane. Historically, American banjos are descendants of a broadly related family of lutes developed in West Africa from earlier Midd ...
Banjo
The banjo is a four-, five- or (occasionally) six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head. The membrane, or head, is typically made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally but rarely used, and the frame is typically circular. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in America, adapted from African instruments of similar design.The banjo is frequently associated with country, folk, Irish traditional and bluegrass music. Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African American traditional music, before becoming popular in the minstrel shows of the 19th century. The banjo, with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American old-time music.