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The five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
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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.
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.
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 .”
In 1957, he enrolled as a student at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, where he learned the five-string banjo and continued to improve his guitar skills.
* Fifth-string capo: The five-string banjo, with its short fifth string, poses a particular problem for using the capo.
Connolly sang, played five-string banjo, guitar and autoharp, and at live shows entertained the audience with his humorous introductions to the songs.
The cittern may have a range of only an octave between its lowest and highest strings and employs a " re-entrant " tuning-a tuning in which the string that is physically uppermost is not the lowest, as is also the case with the five-string banjo for example.
Luke Kelly was more of a balladeer than Drew, and he played chords on the five-string banjo.
Watchorn made a name for himself with The Dublin City Ramblers ; like Kelly, he accompanies his songs on the five-string banjo.
The 1949 recording features Scruggs playing a Gibson Granada five-string banjo.
Many five-string banjo players consider " Foggy Mountain Breakdown " one of the instrument's fastest and most rhythmically challenging pieces.
Only very skilled five-string banjo players can play it at the same speed and beat that Scruggs can.
The fifth string on a five-string banjo is a drone string with a separate tuning peg that places the end of the string five frets down the neck of the instrument ; this string is usually tuned to the same note as that which the first string produces when played at the fifth fret, and the drone string is seldom fretted.
This album doesn't include the five-string banjo.
* 1995 Bart Reiter five-string banjo
He ran track and played varsity football, sang in the choir, played bassoon in the band and drums in the stage band, and taught himself how to play the five-string banjo.
* A " banjolin " is a type of banjo patented by John Farris in 1885, available then in soprano, alto, tenor, and bass models, all either " quartette " ( four-string ) or " quintette " ( five-string ) ( see external link below ).
He is a five-string banjo player who has been involved in the bluegrass music scene since the 1970s, writing several instruction books and videos on how to play the banjo.
He also played a " mandoline ", an instrument with mandolin body and a five-string banjo neck.
Schooner Fare is a local Maine folk band, consisting of the late Tom Rowe ( vocals, bass guitar, tin whistle ), Steve Romanoff ( vocals, six and twelve-string guitar, five-string banjo ), and Chuck Romanoff ( vocals, twelve-string guitar, tenor banjo ).
Banjoist Marko Čermak was able to build the first Czech five-string banjo from photographs taken at this event.
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He gave a concert of his own compositions in London, performing on various instruments, one of which was a five-string cello known as a pentachord, which had been recently invented by John Joseph Merlin.
A five-string version of the Mexican Zone Bass was launched in 2005.
The Jazz Plus Bass was available with an alder body and the option of a natural-finish ash body on the four-string model for a $ 100 upcharge, either a maple or rosewood fretboard on the four-string and pau ferro ( an exotic hardwood whose tone is brighter than rosewood yet warmer than ebony ) on the five-string.
The Jazz Plus debuted in 1989 ( the five-string model was released in 1990 ), discontinued in 1994 and replaced by the USA Deluxe Series Jazz Bass the following year.
The Vegavox was produced primarily in four-stringed plectrum ( 22-fret ) and tenor ( 19-fret ) versions ; however, some five-string models were made as special orders.
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The five-stringed pipa however had fallen from use by the Song Dynasty, although attempts have been made to revive this instrument in the early 21st century with a modernized five-string pipa modeled on the Tang Dynasty instrument.
The American Deluxe Jazz Bass ( available in four-string fretted and fretless, five-string fretted and left-hand versions ) features two Samarium Cobalt Noiseless Jazz Bass pickups, designed by pickup designer Bill Lawrence.
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Mat Maneri, born on October 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York is an American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player, specifically derivatives such as the five-string viola, the electric six-string violin, and the baritone violin.
In March 2012 Fender updated the American Standard Jazz Bass ( except the five-string version ) with Custom Shop 1960s Jazz Bass pickups.
Known as Jazz Bass Deluxe since introduced as part of a major reworking of Fender's Electric Bass lineup in 1995, they have been renamed the American Deluxe Jazz Bass to the public as of August 2000 in a Bass Player magazine review of the new " Fender American Deluxe Precision V " five-string counterpart model to the American Deluxe Jazz Bass.
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Some bassists with five-string basses use a high " C " string as the fifth string, instead of a low " B " string.
The popularity of the instrument is documented in Leopold Mozart's second edition of his Violinschule, where he writes " One can bring forth difficult passages easier with the five-string violone, and I heard unusually beautiful performances of concertos, trios, solos, etc.
Fender currently produces a Marcus Miller signature Fender Jazz Bass in four-( made in Japan ) and five-string ( made in U. S ) versions.
The dita ( a five-string lyre ) and: musical bows ( including an unusual three-string variant ) are among the chordophones found in the south.
He also made a second recording of the same music in 1992 on the large Servais Stradivarius and on a five-string violoncello piccolo.
Many five-string banjos have removable resonators, so players can use the instrument with a resonator in bluegrass style, or without it in folk music style.
On the five-string Zone, it's essentially a Vintage Noiseless Jazz Bass pickup with solid covers.
Also, five-string and six-string models ( not generally available in acoustic cellos ) allow for an extended range.
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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.
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.
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