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The first consists of primary banjo players and the second of celebrities that also play the banjo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
He played the tenor banjo, violin, mandolin, and melodeon. He was most renowned as a banjo player. Barney used GDAE tuning on a 19-fret tenor banjo, an octave below fiddle/mandolin and, according to musician Mick Moloney, was single-handedly responsible for making the GDAE-tuned tenor banjo the standard banjo in Irish music.
Bernard Noël "Banjo Barney" McKenna (16 December 1939 – 5 April 2012 [1]) was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He played the tenor banjo , violin, mandolin , and melodeon .
March 7, 2024 at 8:17 AM. ... One of the most respected tenor banjo players in Ireland, Enda Scahill, ... In fact, the bus provided stress-free downtime to hear Enda, Rob and Eddie outdo each ...
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Tagawa was introduced to the banjo in 1956, when he was twenty-one, by Takashi Tsunoda, one of Japan's top banjoists and recording artists. [3] Although he started on guitar, he found his calling after picking up a four-string tenor banjo. Shortly thereafter, he purchased a used tenor banjo for $20.00.
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. Peabody also developed a special electric banjo —first with Vega, and later with the Fender Company and Rickenbacker —called the Banjoline .
2014 American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame Award for Earl Scruggs. The American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame, formerly known as the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame, recognizes musicians. bands, or companies that have made a distinct contribution to banjo performance, education, manufacturing, and towards promotion of the banjo.
Samuel Swaim Stewart (January 8, 1855—April 6, 1898), also known as S. S. Stewart, was a musician, composer, publisher, and manufacturer of banjos. [3] He owned the S. S. Stewart Banjo Company, which was one of the largest banjo manufacturers in the 1890s, manufacturing tens-of-thousands of banjos annually. [4]