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  2. Mandolin-banjo - Wikipedia

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    Banjo hybrids normally take their names from the Banjo- prefix, and then the second half of the other instrument's name, such as banjocello, banjo guitar, and banjo ukulele which implies the banjolin is a sort of mandolin/banjo hybrid. In the advertisement, Farris did not mention where the name came from, but did say that it was "fingered like ...

  3. Banjo - Wikipedia

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    Instruments that have a five-string banjo neck on a wooden body (for example, a guitar, bouzouki, or dobro body) have also been made, such as the banjola. A 20th-century Turkish instrument similar to the banjo is called the cümbüş, which combines a banjo-like resonator with a neck derived from an oud.

  4. Banjo ukulele - Wikipedia

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    The banjo ukulele neck typically has sixteen frets, and is the same scale length as a soprano or, less commonly, concert or tenor-sized ukulele. Banjo ukuleles may be open-backed, or may incorporate a resonator. Banjo ukulele heads were traditionally made of calf skin, but most modern instruments are fitted with synthetic heads. Some players ...

  5. Cümbüş - Wikipedia

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    The cümbüş is shaped like an American banjo, with a spun-aluminum resonator bowl and skin soundboard. Although originally configured as an oud, the instrument has been converted to other instruments by attaching a different set of neck and strings. [2] The standard cümbüş is fretless, but guitar, mandolin and ukulele versions have fretboards.

  6. Sanshin - Wikipedia

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    The sanshin (三線, lit., "three strings") is an Okinawan and Amami Islands musical instrument and precursor of the mainland Japanese shamisen . Often likened to a banjo, it consists of a snakeskin-covered body, neck and three strings.

  7. Ahenk - Wikipedia

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    The ahenk is a fretless stringed instrument from Turkey, invented by Süleyman Suat Sezgin in 1929. [1] It was designed to be played like the oud. The instrument is similar to a banjo; like the banjo it uses has a reflector bowl as a resonator. On the ahenk, the bowl is made of wood.

  8. Banjo guitar - Wikipedia

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    Banjo guitar, also known as banjitar [1] or ganjo, [2] is a six-string banjo tuned in the standard tuning of a six-string guitar (E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4 from lowest to highest strings). The instrument is intended to allow guitar players to emulate a banjo, without learning the different tuning and fingering techniques required for the standard five ...

  9. Bulbul tarang - Wikipedia

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    Bulbul Tarang made by THE KAMLESH. The Bulbul Tarang (बुलबुल तरंग) literally "waves of nightingales", alternately Indian Banjo) is a string instrument from India. which evolved from the Japanese taishōgoto, which likely arrived in South Asia in the 1930s.

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