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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.
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.
On a stringed instrument, a break in an otherwise ascending (or descending) order of string pitches is known as a re-entry.A re-entrant tuning, therefore, is a tuning which does not order all the strings (or more properly the courses) from the lowest pitch to the highest pitch (or vice versa).
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His preferred choice of instrument was the traditional wooden ukulele because of its sweet sound, rather than the more strident banjolele favoured by George Formby - though he played both. Billy used a special tuning when performing on live broadcasts and theatres.
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