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Banjo tunings

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on March 6, 2009 at 12:33:56 pm
 

See the particular tuning page below

 

5 string banjo

 

Used in bluegrass with a resonator, old time with an open back.

 

long neck banjo

 

Pete Seeger's invention, adds an extra three frets to four of the strings of a 5-stringer.

 

tenor banjo

 

Four heavier strings, used in jazz.

 

Banjo-mandolin

A small, eight-stringed four-course instrument strung and tuned identically to a neopolitan mandolin.

 

External links

 

http://jonathanhoppe.com/banjolinks.asp

 

http://www.banjomuseum.org/banjohistory.htm Officially a tenor banjo site, it has a more general history

 

 

 

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