2007-01-19 20:18:33 · 9 answers · asked by P.I. Stingray 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Five-string banjo
The origins of the five-string banjo are often linked to Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Sweeney wanted an instrument similar to the banjar played by African Americans in the American South, but at the same time, he wanted to implement some new ideas. He worked with a New York drum maker to replace the banjar's skin-covered gourd with the modern open-backed drum-like pot, and added another string to give the instrument more range or a drone. This new banjo came to be tuned gCGBD; somewhat higher than the eAEG#B tuning of the banjar.
2007-01-19 20:27:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Steel Guitar
Banjos date back to ancient Middle Eastern cultures.
2007-01-19 20:23:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The glass armonica invented by Benjamon Franklinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armonica
2007-01-19 20:21:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Dulcimer
2014-10-04 18:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Banjo.
2007-01-19 20:21:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kazoo
2015-01-10 09:26:22 · answer #6 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the banjo, I think!
2007-01-19 20:21:37 · answer #7 · answered by High On Life 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
skin flute?
2007-01-19 20:22:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
BANJO
2007-01-19 20:35:22 · answer #9 · answered by cesare214 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋