For a serious young man who plays golf with a serious intensity, Palmer has such an inherent sense of humor that it relieves the strain and keeps his nerves from jangling like banjo strings.

The banjo is a four -, five-or six-stringed instrument with a piece of animal skin or plastic stretched over a circular frame.

The banjo is usually associated with country, folk, Irish traditional, and bluegrass music.

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.

" There were two guitars and a banjo player with him.

It allows a tenor banjo player to provide a guitar-based rhythm section with little to learn.

* Pickin ' and Grinnin ': Musical interludes with Owens ( on guitar ) and Clark ( on banjo ) and the entire cast.

"), 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.

The sketch always ended with Roy's banjo solo, each time ending a different comical way.

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.

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

) Contributions from guitarists Marc Ribot, Robert Quine, and Keith Richards accompanied Waits ' move away from piano-based songs, in juxtaposition with an increased emphasis on instruments such as marimba, accordion, double bass, trombone, and banjo.

They were popular during the 1960s with their best-known configuration as: Judith Durham on vocals, piano and tambourine ; Athol Guy on double bass and vocals ; Keith Potger on twelve-string guitar, banjo and vocals ; and Bruce Woodley on guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals.

Originally, plotting tables ( in large ships ), combined with specialised slide rules ( known in U. S. service as the " banjo " and " Is / Was "), reconciled the speed, distance, and course of a target with the firing ship's speed and course, together with the performance of its torpedoes, to provide a firing solution.

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.

Tork, once free from Don Kirshner's restrictions, in 1967, contributed some of the most memorable and catchy instrumental flourishes, such as the piano introduction to " Daydream Believer " and the banjo part on " You Told Me ", as well as exploring occasional songwriting with the likes of " For Pete's Sake " and " Lady's Baby ".

North American " Dutchmen-style " features an oom-pah sound often with a tuba & banjo, and has roots in the American Midwest.

Jazz bands usually consist of a rhythm section and a horn section, in the early days often trumpet, trombone, and clarinet with rhythm section of piano, banjo, bass or tuba, and drums.

* 1966 – Texaco replaces the long-running banjo sign with a new hexagon logo that had previously been test-marketed with the " Matawan " station design introduced two years earlier.

In fact, slaves influenced early development of the music that became country and bluegrass, through the introduction of the banjo and the innovation of musical techniques for both the banjo and fiddle.

* J. P. Cormier, singer-songwriter, fiddle, mandolin, banjo guitar-player, Cheticamp.

The blackface Virginia Minstrels in 1843, featuring tambourine, fiddle, banjo and Bones ( instrument ) | bones.

This sort of music is played on acoustic instruments, such as the fiddle, banjo, guitar and double bass ; certain instruments, including the piano, accordion, concertina and hammered dulcimer, are popular in specific regions.

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 ).

* Richard Kriehn – fiddle, banjo, mandolin

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.

* Cowan Creek Mountain Music School-A set of week-long intensive classes in banjo, guitar, fiddle, square dance, storytelling and singing.

* Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, a bluegrass trio of Mizzone brothers: Jonny ( 9, banjo ), Robbie ( 12, fiddle ) and Tommy ( 13, guitar ).

* Dwight Diller, banjo and fiddle player and teacher

They used instruments such as the washboard, jugs, tea chest bass, cigar-box fiddle, musical saw, and comb-and-paper kazoos, as well as more conventional instruments such as acoustic guitar and banjo.

The earliest country instrumentation revolved around the European-derived fiddle and the African-derived banjo, with the guitar later added.

" Examples included two UK groups — the country-tinged pop band Boothill Foot Tappers and the tongue-in-cheek New Wave outfit Yip Yip Coyote — and several U. S. bands: X, The Blasters, Meat Puppets, Rubber Rodeo ( which ironically " juxtaposed countrypolitan elements and more conventional rock postures " in homage to " a pop-culture west rather than a geographic or historic one "), Rank and File ( playing " an updated version of 1960s country-rock "), Jason and the Scorchers ( with " authentically deep country roots "), and Violent Femmes ( at that time incorporating " mountain banjo, wheezing saxophones, scraping fiddle, twanging jew's harp, and ragged vocal choruses ").

Minstrel instruments were also a mélange: African banjo and tambourine with European fiddle and bones In short, early minstrel music and dance was not true black culture ; it was a white reaction to it.

Minstrel performers from the last days of the shows, such as Uncle Dave Macon, helped popularize the banjo and fiddle in modern country music.

Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo, American fiddle, fretted dulcimer, and guitar.

Because of its size and portability, the fiddle was the core of early Oklahoma Anglo music, but other instruments such as the guitar, mandolin, banjo, and steel guitar were added later.

Modern-day traditional dance music is based mostly around schottisches, polkas and waltzes with instrumentation including fiddle, mandola, accordion and banjo.

String Bands of the North Carolina Piedmont region had their own sound consisting of long bow fiddle playing, flowing banjo lines, and a prominent bass line provided by the guitar, an instrument added to the ensemble in the early 20th century.

In its earliest days the Grand Ole Opry featured banjo players, fiddle players, and string bands from Middle Tennessee such as Uncle Dave Macon, Fiddlin ' Arthur Smith, the McGee Brothers, Humphrey Bate and his Possum Hunters, the Gully Jumpers, the Fruit Jar Drinkers, and The Crook Brothers String Band.

Some dances are accompanied by a pinpeat orchestra, which includes a ching ( cymbal ), roneat ( bamboo xylophone ), pai au ( flute ), sralai ( oboe ), chapey ( bass banjo ), gong ( bronze gong ), tro ( fiddle ), and various kinds of drums.