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2. Banjo - Wikipedia

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   That music encouraged musicians to alter their 5-string banjos to four, add the louder steel strings and use a pick or plectrum, all in an effort to be heard over the brass and reed instruments that were current in dance-halls. [52] The four string plectrum and tenor banjos did not eliminate the five-string variety.

3. Bass banjo - Wikipedia

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   In 1919, [5] Gibson began manufacturing a 4-string cello banjo, known as the CB-4. [6] Other vintage manufacturers of four-string bass banjos include Bacon & Day . [ 7 ] [ verification needed ] Gold Tone is the only contemporary manufacturer.

4. Joel Sweeney - Wikipedia

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   Joel Sweeney. Joel Walker Sweeney (1810 – October 29, 1860), also known as Joe Sweeney, was an American musician and early blackface minstrel performer. He is known for popularizing the playing of the banjo and has often been credited with advancing the physical development of the modern five-string banjo.

5. Tony Trischka - Wikipedia

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   Anthony Cattell Trischka (born January 16, 1949) is an American five-string banjo player. Sandra Brennan wrote of him in 2020: "One of the most influential modern banjoists, both in several forms of bluegrass music and occasionally in jazz and avant-garde, Tony Trischka has inspired a whole generation of progressive psychedelic bluegrass musicians."

6. Kay Musical Instrument Company - Wikipedia

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   left: Kay L-30 (1947) played by Chubby Jackson. right: Kay S-51 5-string (c. 1940) In 1937, Kay began to produce a 3/4 size upright bass , which is widely believed to be their Concert or C-1 bass. Like their guitar manufacturing, the basses were hand crafted by skilled craftsmen using special ordered machinery.

7. Bill Keith (musician) - Wikipedia

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   William Bradford "Bill" Keith (December 20, 1939 – October 23, 2015) was a five-string banjoist who made a significant contribution to the stylistic development of the instrument. In the 1960s he introduced a variation on the popular " Scruggs style " of banjo playing (an integral element of bluegrass music ) which would soon become known as ...