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The banjo ukulele, also known as the banjolele or banjo uke, is a four-stringed musical instrument with a small banjo-type body and a fretted ukulele neck. The earliest known banjoleles were built by John A. Bolander [ 1 ] and by Alvin D. Keech, [ 2 ] both in 1917.
Farm to Market Road 372 (FM 372) is located in Cooke County. FM 372 was designated on June 23, 1945, from US 77 Gainesville southeast 8.8 miles (14.2 km) toward Mountain Springs. On December 17, 1951, FM 372 was extended north 2.8 miles (4.5 km) miles incorporating old US 77.
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden: Dallas: East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society: Athens: Fort Worth Botanic Garden: Fort Worth: Houston Arboretum and Nature Center: Houston: Houston Botanic Garden Houston John Henry Kirby State Forest: Tyler County: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Austin: Lubbock Memorial Arboretum: Lubbock Lynn ...
A Woman's Garden is a gift from the Women's Council of Dallas. The first phase of this 1.8-acre (0.73 ha) formal garden was designed in 1997 by landscape architect Morgan Wheelock. A Woman's Garden is composed of several smaller outdoor garden "rooms" and terraced walkways, including the Pecan Parterre and the Poetry Garden, which features a ...
FM 423 was first designated on July 2, 1945. Its original routing was from Lewisville to the former Lake Dallas dam along what was then SH 24.Upon completion of the Lewisville Dam and the creation of Lewisville Lake in 1955, the route's alignment was shifted to the east, connecting FM 720 (itself an older alignment of SH 24) to SH 121. [6]
A number of mainland-based stringed-instrument manufacturers, among them Regal, Harmony, and especially Martin, added ukulele, banjolele, and tiple lines to their production to take advantage of the demand. [27] The ukulele also made inroads into early country music or old-time music [28] parallel to the then-popular mandolin.
Formby's father, George Sr George Formby was born George Hoy Booth in Wigan, Lancashire, on 26 May 1904.He was the eldest of seven surviving children born to James Lawler Booth and his wife Eliza, née Hoy, [1] although this marriage was bigamous because Booth was still married to his first wife, Martha Maria Salter, a twenty-year-old music hall performer. [2]
Gibson manufactured banjos in the years before World War II.They are differentiated from later Gibson banjos by their scarcity. Banjo sales plummeted during the Great Depression, for lack of buyers, and metal parts became scarce into the 1940s as factories shifted to support the war. [1]