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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 ...
Plectrum banjo from Gold Tone. The four-string plectrum banjo is a standard banjo without the short drone string. It usually has 22 frets on the neck and a scale length of 26 to 28 inches, and was originally tuned C3 G3 B3 D4. It can also be tuned like the top four strings of a guitar, which is known as "Chicago tuning". [64]
Standard aka "Banjo tuning" (octave higher than the plectrum banjo) Bugarija, 5 string 5 strings 4 courses. Standard/common: G 2 •B 2 •D 3 •G 3 G 3. Alternates: D 2 •F ♯ 2 •A 2 •D 3 D 3; E 2 •G ♯ 2 •B 2 •E 3 E 3; Kontra Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia First course is sometimes not doubled. Bugarija, 6 string 6 strings 4 courses ...
The most commonly used tuning is A-E-A-E. Likewise banjo players in this tradition use many tunings to play melody in different keys. A common alternative banjo tuning for playing in D is A-D-A-D-E. Many Folk guitar players also used different tunings from standard, such as D-A-D-G-A-D, which is very popular for Irish music.
Bellows-blown bagpipes from Northeastern England consisting of a single chanter (generally with keys) and usually four drones. 422.112 Etruria: kithara [49] Stringed instrument with a deep soundbox made of two tables, connected by ribs, with strings attached to a tuning bar, played with a plectrum: 321.22: Finland: kantele [1] [50] [51] [52 ...
He was based in Chicago for most of the 1920s, and played with such jazz notables as Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, and Frank Teschemacher. He and Red McKenzie formed the Chicago Rhythm Kings in 1925. [3] While in Chicago, Condon and other white musicians would go to Lincoln Gardens to watch and learn from King Oliver and his band. [4]
Struck string instruments (such as the piano) can be similarly plucked as an extended technique. Plucked string instruments are not a category in the Sachs-Hornbostel classification, aside from 335 and 336 , as some of them are simple chordophones and others are composite (depending on whether the resonator is the removable part of the instrument).
The Banjoline is a four coursed instrument similar to a tenor guitar or plectrum banjo. The instrument was developed by Eddie Peabody in the 1930s, initially as an acoustic instrument. In the early 1950s, Peabody approached the Vega Company of Boston, Massachusetts which produced several electric versions of the instrument, but never put them ...