banjo

Banjo music is a genre of music that consists exclusively, or primarily of, the banjo. Banjo music can be played as a solo, or it can be played with a band. Banjo music can be played with all types of banjos (four, five, or six string). Banjo music. Stylistic origins.

The word banjo was originally used in 18th century America, from the Bantu mbanza, a banjo-like stringed instrument. Definitions of banjo. a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body.

For a musician, the banjo offers acoustic power, super responsiveness to any kind of touch, brightness that can cut through the sound of an ensemble, warmth and richness to accompany voices and other instruments, and a tone character that is completely unique in the world of musical instruments.

To play the banjo. Wiktionary. (slang, UK) To beat; to knock down.

The banjo is commonly associated with Dixieland jazz, bluegrass, and folk music, but it's been used in other genres, including pop and rock, for many years.

"Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. The song was composed in 1954 by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos"; it contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno.

It was played exclusively by Africans in America and African Americans during colonial times and the early United States. Starting in the 1840s, blackface minstrel performers began popularizing the banjo among middle-class Whites who purchased manufactured instruments and learned to play.

He was a keen horse rider and took the nickname Banjo from his favourite horse of the same name.

The ability to vary head tension, hand position, string type, head materials, bridge, tailpiece, playing techniques, nail length, neck woods, rim construction, and so on leads to a mind boggling number of potential sounds a banjo can make – even out of a single banjo.

The strings are connected to both the neck and the bridge. That vibrational energy is passed on to the neck of the banjo and down to the bridge of the banjo. The neck will vibrate and because it is connected to the rim, then it will also cause the rim to vibrate.

BANJO makes a relatively late appearance in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) and the definition is succinct: “to hit.”

In contrast to a guitar, the strings of a banjo are fixed at the instrument's rim by means of an adjustable tailpiece, resulting in a 'floating bridge' (pictured). Sound is produced through the combined vibration of the strings and the drum. A vibrating string with fixed ends undergoes expansions.