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Gerry O'Connor (born 21 July 1960 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland) is a traditional tenor banjo player. As Earl Hitchener (music critic for the Wall Street Journal) said, Gerry O'Connor can be considered at the moment "the single best four string banjoist in the history of Irish Music". [1] He also plays mandolin, fiddle, guitar and tenor ...
Banjo, tenor 4 strings 4 courses. Standard/common : C 3 G 3 D 4 A 4. Alternate: Irish : G 2 D 3 A 3 E 4; US US via Africa Irish tuning same as octave mandolin tuning Banjo, Plectrum 4 strings 4 courses. C 3 G 3 B 3 D 4. Chicago Tuning: D 3 G 3 B 3 E 4. US via Africa Baryton: 17 strings 17 courses Two ranks. Bowed rank: A 1 D 2 G 3 C 3 E 3 A 3 D 4
Also common are tuning one octave below standard violin tuning, G 2 −D 3 −A 3 −E 4, which is typical of the tenor banjo in Irish folk music or "octave mandolin," and the so-called "Chicago tuning", D 3 −G 3 −B 3 −E 4, the same as the top four strings of a standard guitar, or the "baritone ukulele," a slightly smaller instrument ...
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.
A variety of tunings are used for the four string tenor guitar, including a relatively small number of re-entrant tunings. One example of a re-entrant tuning for tenor guitar is D 4 –G 3 –B 3 –E 4 with strings 3–1 as for the normal 6-string guitar, but string 4 tuned to D an octave above the 4th string of the 6 string guitar.
Also, the tuning given is for a very specific kind of 4-string banjo, the tenor--I've corrected that in the caption, at least. (Just "4-string" implies the plectrum banjo, which is tuned the same as the 5-string, minus the short 5th string).
Kieran Hanrahan [1] (born 1957) is an Irish radio host and musician. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Born in Ennis , County Clare , he began playing traditional Irish music on the tenor banjo at the age of fourteen. Over the years, Hanrahan has helped to found a number of traditional bands, including Stockton's Wing , Inchiquin, and the Temple-house Ceili Band.
The mandolin-banjo is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin. It is a soprano banjo. [1] It has been independently invented in more than one country, variously being called mandolin-banjo, banjo-mandolin, banjolin and banjourine in English-speaking countries, [2] banjoline and bandoline in France, [3 ...