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The name stems from the shape of the fitting, having a large circular section connected to a thinner pipe, generally similar to the shape of a banjo. [1] Two banjo fittings (upper center of photo) atop automotive brake calipers. The copper crush washer in the gap between the fitting and body of the caliper completes the seal.
Two styles of mandolin-banjo, showing a large and small head, with a full size, four-string banjo (bottom). L-R - Banjo-mandolin, standard mandolin, 3-course mandolin, Tenor mandola. 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]
Bettencourt has endorsed several Washburn acoustic models as well. There is the N7 7-string model, and an acoustic/electric based on the Festival Series, the EA20SNB. Ola Englund Solar (2013/2014): Signature model announced by Washburn in 2013 for Swedish guitarist Ola Englund of Six Feet Under, Feared, and The Haunted. [24]
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Vega initially labeled these instruments A. C. Fairbanks, then switched to Fairbanks banjo by the Vega Co., then eventually to just Vega. David L. Day, who had been the chief acoustical designer at Fairbanks, became general manager of the Vega stringed instrument division and continued to develop innovative and successful banjo designs.
This sub-category is for instruments directly related to or descended from the 19th Century American banjo (rather than drumhead lutes of all types). Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Best known for his "unusual and intricate finger-style" banjo playing, Boarman played "an old-time banjo in a folk style akin to the classic pickers of the turn of the century." [ 1 ] Lloyd Longacre, a classical banjo player, described Boarman's style on the five-string banjo as a "blending of early classical banjo and folk music of his youth ...