The five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

This new banjo was at first tuned dGDF # A, though by the 1890s this had been transposed up to gCGBD.

Buddy was the youngest of three siblings, and brothers Larry and Travis taught him to play a variety of instruments, including the guitar, four-string banjo and lap steel guitar.

Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, his mother Maude Green originally from Ulverston in England was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training.

It is generally accepted that the tenor guitar was created to allow a tenor banjo player to follow the fashion as it evolved from Dixieland Jazz towards the more progressive Jazz that featured guitar.

The stringed, chord-playing rhythm instrument typical of jazz ensembles from 1900 until the early 1920s was the banjo, an instrument which was much louder than guitars of the time.

It was the pagode, a renewed samba, with new instruments like the banjo and the tan-tan.

Recorded in summer 1980, it featured Tork, who sang, played rhythm guitar, keyboards, and banjo ; it was backed by Southern rock band Cottonmouth, led by guitarist / singer / songwriter Johnny Pontiff, featuring Gerard Trahan on guitar / keyboards / vocals, Gene Pyle on bass guitar / vocals and Gary Hille on drums / percussion.

Each moving contact was to the other contacts on the same level by simpler " banjo " wires, to a link on one of the inputs of a switch in the next stage.

Black musicians infused characteristics of the blues to the mix, and in a development that was key to shaping the bluegrass sound, introduced the iconic banjo to the region.

Although other musicians had played in three-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in his group, the Blue Grass Boys.

Scruggs was born near Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina, to Georgia Lula Ruppe and George Elam Scruggs, a farmer and bookkeeper, who played banjo and died when Scruggs was four years old.

At an 80th birthday party for Scruggs in 2004, country singer Porter Wagoner said, “ Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball .” “ He is the best there ever was ”, Wagoner said, “ and the best there ever will be .”

The instrumental banjo piece " Foggy Mountain Breakdown " by Flatt and Scruggs was introduced to a worldwide audience as a result of its frequent use in the movie.

While several compositions on 1964's Beatles for Sale, as well as " I'll Cry Instead " from A Hard Day's Night, had leaned in a country and western direction, McCartney's " I've Just Seen a Face " was almost pure country, taken at such a fast tempo that it might have been bluegrass if not for the absence of banjo and fiddle.

It was there some fifty years before that crowds used to gather around and watch Baby Jane practice her songs and dances while Daddy played the banjo.

Crumb was the leader of the band R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, for which he sang lead vocals, wrote several songs and played banjo and other instruments.

Torriano Avenue, dating back to 1848, is a popular Kentish Town street being home to Pete Stanley, one of the country's best-known bluegrass banjo players, British actor Bill Nighy, The Torriano Poets, a beacon of culture where local poets have met for over 20 years and still hold weekly public poetry readings on Sunday evenings ; its founder was John Rety.

Ory was a banjo player during his youth and it is said that his ability to play the banjo helped him develop " tailgate ," a particular style of playing the trombone.

I even think some of the songs that feature no one but Hicks and his current version of the Hot Licks ( Sid Page on violin, Kevin Smith on upright bass, Gregg Bissonette on drums, and Jessica Harper and Karla De Vito on background vocals ), such as " Hummin ' To Myself " and " He Don't Care ," may be the strongest here ... Hicks ' arrangements make use of banjo, fiddle and Django Reinhardt – like jazz guitar at times.

The 2010 Standard Firebird V will not feature the classic banjo tuners but Steinberger gearless tuners, tuners with the tuning key on the back, and locking mechanisms on top of the headstock.

Flying in a Blue Dream marks Joe's first record to feature himself playing harmonica and banjo but is noted for Satriani's use of echoing harmonics throughout much the album including the track " Flying in a Blue Dream " itself.

For the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition, she " proposed a southern exhibit ' illustrating the slave period ,' with a cabin and ' real colored folks making mats, shuck collars, and baskets — a woman to spin and card cotton — and another to play banjo and show the actual life of slave — not the Uncle Tom sort.

A fast, spirited number ( 171 bpm ) played without any guitar, with Davey Johnstone playing banjo instead, " Honky Cat " is essentially about the illusion created by city life.

It is believed to have evolved into the banjo in North America after Mande slaves were exported there en masse.

In North America, the banjo was typically made by hollowing out a gourd or calabash and attaching a long neck.

When Mick Moloney founded Green Fields of America in 1977, Seamus joined up and took lessons from Mick on the banjo.

The opening line refers to " a banjo on my knee ", referring to a musical instrument with African origins, but the song takes its beat from the polka, which had just reached America from Europe.

In addition to the etching, plans for a cigar box banjo were published by Daniel Carter Beard, co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America, in 1884 as part of ' Christmas Eve With Uncle Enos.

Another likely ancestor of the banjo is the akonting, a spike folk lute played by the Jola tribe of Senegambia, and the ubaw-akwala of the Igbo.

They were often accompanied by banjo and guitar which followed the blues musical format.

"), with the duo ( and sometimes a guest star sitting between Buck and Roy ) ' dueling ' by playing guitar and banjo to the tune of " Cripple Creek ", telling jokes and reciting one-liners.

By the 1930s, the guitar began to displace the banjo as the primary chordal rhythm instrument in jazz music, because the guitar could be used to voice chords of greater harmonic complexity, and it had a somewhat more muted tone that blended well with the upright bass, which, by this time, had almost completely replaced the tuba as the dominant bass instrument in jazz music.

Hybridization with the louder banjo creates the mandolin-banjo, and resonators have been used, most notably by Dobro and the National String Instrument Corporation.

A folk ragtime tradition also existed before and during the period of classical ragtime ( a designation largely created by Scott Joplin's publisher John Stillwell Stark ), manifesting itself mostly through string bands, banjo and mandolin clubs ( which experienced a burst of popularity during the early 20th Century ), and the like.

The crop over tradition began in 1688, and featured singing, dancing and accompaniment by bottles filled with water, shak-shak, banjo, triangle, fiddle, guitar, and bones.

He began studying piano at the age of nine, showing an aptitude for music by learning to play several different instruments, including the banjo and acoustic and bass guitars.

Tork's brief five-string banjo piece can be heard 16 minutes into the film, as Professor Collins is caught by his mother while spying on his neighbour Penny Lane.

Plucking is used as a method of playing on instruments such as the banjo, ukulele, guitar, harp, lute, mandolin, oud, sitar, and either by a finger or thumb, or by some type of plectrum.

Mungo Jerry, who had evolved from an earlier blues group Good Earth, were in effect a jug band on their first live performances and recordings, thanks to their use of jug ( played by the group's banjo player Paul King, who left in 1972 ), and washboard, contributed by regular ' extra member ' Joe Rush.

Stations are identified by the street from Texaco's " banjo " sign.

The fiddle, five-string banjo, guitar, mandolin, and upright bass ( string bass ) are often joined by the resonator guitar ( also referred to as a Dobro ) and ( occasionally ) harmonica.

Traditional bluegrass performers believe the " correct " instrumentation is that used by Bill Monroe's band, the Blue Grass Boys ( mandolin, played by Monroe, fiddle, guitar, banjo and bass ).

Traditional bands may use their instruments in slightly different ways ; for example playing the banjo by the claw-hammer style, or using multiple guitars or fiddles in a band.